The Oncoplastia is the surgery which reconstructs the breast after a mastectomy.
Yes well in spite of that thanks to the inspection of the Sentinel lymph node, the odds for a mastectomy have declined, next to the technical surgical and to them treatments prior and subsequent to the surgery, in some cases arises how hopeless the mastectomy. Here is where the oncoplastia to reconstruct the missing breast by different methods.
The breast reconstruction techniques vary and depend mainly on the amount of tissue removed and its location. The most widely used are those who make use of tissues of the own breast that fill in the gaps caused by the removal of the cancer through its repositioning, are called local flaps with chest or without (often for have a good symmetry between them two breasts are recommended carry to out the breast contralateral of breast, thus obtaining a better aesthetic result of the breast). In the case of older resections (for example, some cuadrantectomías), that not have enough tissue in the breast in itself same to carry to out the reconstruction, releases of side the use of flaps to distance or utlizacao implants breast (more information in the following article , Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy). In these cases, While conservative treatment of breast cancer is still called, We used the techniques used in mastectomies because they achieved with better aesthetic results of the reconstructed breast.
