| The Neoadjuvant Net: A patient- and surgeon-friendly device to facilitate safe breast-conserving surgery in patients who underwent neoadjuvant treatment. | |
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PMID: 22237294 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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The primary goal of the study was to describe an innovative and helpful tool in defining the minimal surgical margins necessary during breast-conserving surgery (BCS) after neoadjuvant treatment: the Neoadjuvant Net (NN). The secondary endpoint was to assess its usefulness in achieving postoperative disease-free margins and reducing Ipsilateral Breast Tumor Recurrences (IBRTs). The breast-conserving surgical technique together with the use of the Neoadjuvant Net is herein reported. Age, stage at diagnosis, clinical and pathological response, lymph node status, type of surgery, margin status, and incidence of local and distant recurrence were retrospectively analyzed. Seventy-five patients underwent BCS following medical treatment from 2000 to 2011. The majority of the patients had significant size reduction (63/75, 84%). Twenty-two had a complete clinical response but only 11 (11/75, 14.7%) showed a complete pathological response. Two patients (2/75, 2.67%) had infiltrated surgical margins. After a mean follow-up of seventy months, 3 patients (3/75, 4%) had IBRTs and 4 women had distant metastases (4/75, 5.34%). The NN is an easy-to-use, non-invasive instrument designed with the purpose of facilitating the surgeon's task of reducing infiltrated margins and IBTRs. |
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Mario Taffurelli; Isacco Montroni; Donatella Santini; Claudio Zamagni; Monica Fiacchi; Simone Zanotti; Alice Pellegrini; Giampaolo Ugolini |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-1-9 |
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Title: Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) Volume: - ISSN: 1532-3080 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-12 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9213011 Medline TA: Breast Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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Department of General Surgery, Emergency Surgery and Organ Transplantation, University of Bologna, Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Via Massarenti, 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy. |
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