Liječnički vjesnik, Vol. 133 No. 3-4, 2011.
Professional paper
VIDEO-ASSISTED EXTIRPATION OF BREAST FIBROADENOMA WITH IMMEDIATE BILATERAL BREAST AUGMENTATION – A CASE REPORT
Tugomir Gverić
Kristina Šemanjski
Marko Barić
Zrnka Adanić
Miljana Pintar
Boris Zdilar
Dubravko Huljev
Zoran Krstonijević
Dinko Gorski
Snježana Gverić-Ahmetašević
Abstract
Background: Since mid 1990s video-assisted breast surgery (VABS) has been developed in the treatment of benign and malignant breast diseases. According to studies that are conducted mainly in Japan, this tehnique is safe, easy to learn and his main advantage is excellent cosmetic results on postoperative appearance of breasts that cannot be achived with standard surgical procedures. Objective: To present a first case of video assisted breast surgery in Croatia applied to treatment of breast fibroadenoma and immediate bilateral breast augmentation. Case report: A 39 year old female patient was admitted to our hospital for elective procedure of breast augmentation. On this occasion video assisted extirpation of fibroadenoma was performed through inframammary incision and followed by immediate bilateral breast augmentation. Conclusion: VABS is feasible, cosmetic effects are evident and the VABS deserves attention as a possible surgical option in breast surgery. However further experience on this field must be gained and it remains to evaluate this tehnique on the additional studies.
Keywords
Breast neoplasms – surgery; Fibroadenoma – surgery; Breast implantation – methods; Endoscopy – methods; Video-assisted surgery
Hrčak ID:
171661
URI
Publication date:
28.4.2011.
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