Prepectoral no mesh versus mesh immediate implant-based reconstruction after mastectomy (Restore-B): a multicentre single-blinded randomised controlled feasibility study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Breast cancer is common and women requiring mastectomy will be offered a breast reconstruction if they are surgically suitable candidate. Breast reconstruction can be performed at the same time as the mastectomy (immediate) or delayed to a second operation after cancer treatments. The reconstruction can either use the patients' own tissue to make the breast (autologous) or use a prosthesis to make the breast in the form of a fixed or expandable volume implant (implant-based breast reconstruction, IBBR). Immediate breast reconstruction on top of the chest wall muscles (prepectoral) is performed worldwide. This operation involves the use of a synthetic or biological mesh placed around the implant under the skin. Increasingly, surgeons are performing this technique withou

SUBMITTER: Rolph R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12542532 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature