BREAST RECONSTRUCTION AFTER SURGERY

摘要

The purpose of the operation is to reconstruct a breast mound to produce breast symmetry. In centres that provide reconstruction there has been a consistent increase in demand, and up to half of patients offered immediate breast reconstruction take up this offer. There is no evidence that immediate reconstruction increases the rate of local or systemic relapse, and it reduces the psychological trauma of the change in body image experienced after mastectomy. Breast reconstruction (particularly immediate reconstruction, which gives substantially better cosmetic and psychological outcomes) should be more widely available than it is at present.