Simultaneous Salvage Auto-augmentation: Contemporary Strategy for Management of the Breast Explantation Patient.

ABSTRACT: The treatment of patients requiring explantation of breast prostheses is a complicated clinical issue, for which a consensus regarding the best way forward is still evolving. We believe that simultaneous salvage auto-augmentation (SSAA) is a viable option for the treatment of patients with explantation.

Methods

Sixteen cases (32 breasts) were reviewed over a 19-year period. The management of the capsule is based on intraoperative findings and not on preoperative evaluation because of the poor interobserver correlation of Baker grades.

Results

The mean age and clinical follow-up duration were 48 years (range: 41-65) and 9 months, respectively. We observed no complications, and only one patient underwent unilateral surgical revision of the periareolar scar, under local anaesthe

SUBMITTER: Kirwan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9988272 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature