Clinical Advances of Breast Surgery and Reconstruction
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery/Aesthetic Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1280
Special Issue Editors
Interests: breast reconstructive surgery; microsurgery; post-bariatric surgery; vulvo-perineal reconsructive surgery
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Interests: microsurgery; breast reconstruction; head and neck; lymphatics; sarcoma; lower limb reconstruction; melanoma; autologous breast reconstruction
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Dear Colleagues,
We are in the era of increasingly personalized surgery, and never as in the field of breast surgery is this concept fully founded.
As regards non-neoplastic breast surgery, each of us handles his or her own techniques of reductive mastoplasty, mastopexy, and additive mastoplasty, using them ad hoc according to the indications and the degree of confidence that one has in this rather than in that technique.
In the current multidisciplinary scenario in which the problem of breast cancer is addressed, the plastic surgeon plays a crucial role in finding the most appropriate reconstructive solution for each patient. In fact, he can give wide vent to his creativity combined with the most advanced knowledge and technologies to guarantee a custom-made reconstruction result that meets international standards, with which we are called to compare. Starting from locoregional perforating flaps for complete or partial autologous reconstruction, through pre-pectoral heterologous reconstruction with or without the use of ADM, up to the most complex microsurgical interventions, where a very high level of expertise is required.
In addition, thanks to the advancements in microbiological assessment and the increasingly efficient medical devices available, we are also able to tackle infectious complications in implant-based reconstruction from a more conservative perspective, something that was unthinkable until a few years ago.
In this broad scenario, you are all invited to express your ideas and share your experiences, thanks to which we will make this Special Issue unique.
Dr. Glenda Giorgia Caputo
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Cigna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- breast reconstruction
- autologous breast reconstruction
- implant-based breast reconstruction
- DIEP
- LICAP
- breast implant infection
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