Publication details

Oboustranná rekonstrukce prsů dvěma DIEP laloky. Jak ji hodnotí pacientky?

Title in English Bilateral brest reconstruction with two DIEP flaps: How the patients evaluate it?
Authors

DRAŽAN Luboš HÝŽA Petr STUPKA Igor JUSTAN Ivan VESELÝ Jiří DVOŘÁK Zdeněk

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Praktický lékař
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Surgery incl. transplantology
Keywords Prophylactic mastectomy; bilateral DIEP flaps breast reconstruction; BRCA 1 2
Description The aim of study was to find out, using a questionnaire, how patients perceive and evaluate the results after bilateral mastectomy followed by two abdominal perforator flaps from abdomen breast reconstruction. Bilateral DIEP breast reconstruction is well accepted and aesthetic results positively appreciated by patients who underwent this operation. There is high satisfaction even in group of unaffected women-carriers BRCA 1, 2 mutation. The results of this study give support to the idea, that bilateral prophylactic mastectomy followed by immediate DIEP reconstruction can serve as primary surgical breast carcinoma prevention also in our country.

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