Abstract:Background. Breast reconstruction after mastectomy is gaining increasing significance avoiding the post-mastectomy-trauma and providing the patients with a normal body image after breast cancer survival. This study was conducted to investigate the patients’ characteristics and comorbidities in correlation with the surgical outcome of expander-implant-reconstruction after mastectomy. Patients’ satisfaction with the surgical result and self-perception as well as their partner interaction were also analyzed in th… Show more
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