Erschienen in:
19.05.2016 | Letter to the Editor
Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy with Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Breast Cancer Patients with Tumour-Nipple Distance Less Than 2.0 cm: The Jury is Still Out
verfasst von:
Demetrios Moris, Michael Kontos
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 1/2017
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Excerpt
We read with interest the recently published article by Ruy et al. [
1]. It is a retrospective study which compares the oncological outcome of breast cancer patients who were treated with nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with the tumour lying more than 2 or less than 2 cm from the nipple. All patients had a preoperative MRI reporting that the nipple was preservable; the groups were comparable but the short nipple to tumour distance (STND) patients had smaller tumours in general. The authors conclude that after about 2 years of follow-up the relapse rates are the same. …