"Breast Reconstruction: Conceptual Evolution" ed. by Yueh-Bih Tang

This book is dedicated to women all over the world. Individuals who suffer from breast cancer or breast disease or deformity can easily get current knowledge to overcome the misery and difficulties that they may encounter. This book will address the conceptual evolution of breast recontouring and reconstruction, along with individualized strategies for refining, restoring, and reconstruction approaches.

The breast is an important structure of the human body in terms of function and aesthetics. Affected individuals may experience concerns related to alterations in breast morphology, including changes in breast size, shape, volume, profile, and silhouette, as well as variations in the size, shape, and projection of the nipple-areolar complex”. Simply aesthetic problems of breasts encompass hypoplasia, atrophy, displacement of the nipple-areolar complex, widened areola, redundant nipple, breast ptosis, macromastia, and so on. Nowadays, breast cancer in different stages may need different reconstruction modalities. Postmastectomy breast reconstruction is another big issue for plastic surgeons.

Contents
1. Breast Health and Preventive Screening
2. Screening, Surveillance, and Survivorship after Breast Reconstruction
3. Immediate Breast Reconstruction with Implants
4. Direct-to-Implant Breast Reconstruction Method: Muscle Anchoring Technique Using Absorbable Strings and Its Safety
5. Meshes in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction: The Science and Technology
6. Thoracoabdominal Flaps for Breast Reconstruction: Different Types and Classification
7. Flaps for Breast Reconstruction
8. Alternative Flap-Based Breast Reconstruction: The PAP Flap
9. Application of CT Angiography in Delayed DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction
10. Robotic Technologies in the Treatment of Breast Cancer
11. Treatment of Symmastia after Breast Reconstruction: Integration of Techniques
12. Revisions for Complications of Aesthetic Breast Surgery


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