Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department of Oncology - Surgical

The development of a standard of treatment that encompasses breast conservative surgery and modified radical mastectomy, happened through need and research. Introduction of oncolpastic surgery with a concomitant contralateral symmetrization procedure is now the new surgical approach that would give the surgical oncologist the freedom required for wide excisions hand in hand with the prevention of breast deformities resulting in a proper cosmetic outcome. To assess the feasibility of bilateral breast reduction for the management of breast cancer and determine the most suitable surgical technique of therapeutic mammoplasty for each patient. Then, evaluate the cosmetic outcome through out different postoperative phases. This study included 43 female patients with breast cancer; they were 3 groups; group A; had bilateral superior pedicle reduction mammoplasty, group B; had bilateral inferior pedicle reduction mammoplasty, group C; had bilateral batwing mastopexy. 1 month postop patients were asked to answer a 5 scale questionnaire evaluating their own cosmetic outcome. Criteria they were asked to evaluate were; symmetry, shape and volume, projection, correction of ptosis, visibility of the scars and overall satisfaction

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