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Complication Profiles by Mastectomy Indication in Tissue Expander Breast Reconstruction

Fouad Chouairi1, Kyle S Gabrick1, Tomer Avraham1

  • 1From the Section of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine.

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|February 8, 2019
PubMed
Summary

Patients undergoing therapeutic mastectomies face a higher risk of mastectomy flap necrosis compared to prophylactic mastectomies. Further research is needed to understand the causes of this increased complication risk in breast reconstruction.

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