Management of Locally Recurrent Breast Cancer Adjacent to Prosthetic Implants

TY - JOUR

T1 - Management of Locally Recurrent Breast Cancer Adjacent to Prosthetic Implants

AU - DerHagopian, Robert P.

AU - Zaworski, Robert E.

AU - Sugarbaker, Everet V.

AU - Ketcham, Alfred S.

N1 - Local recurrence of breast cancer around prosthetic implants has largely the same significance as local recurrence in a nonreconstructed chest wall. It tends to be a harbinger of systemic metastases, and this fact should influence patient management. It was not necessary to remove any implant either for local control of recurrent breast cancer or for complications of treatment.

PY - 1981/1/5

Y1 - 1981/1/5

UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0002961081900581

U2 - 10.1016/0002-9610(81)90058-1

DO - 10.1016/0002-9610(81)90058-1

M3 - Article

VL - 141

JO - American Journal of Surgery

JF - American Journal of Surgery

ER -