Breast Augmentation
(Breast Conservation Surgery)
For centuries, mastectomy has been considered the only way to treat breast neoplasm. By the 1980s it appeared that we could treat breast cancer in a less aggressive way. This is when breast tetartectomy, the first form of breast conservation surgery, was first introduced, with not good aesthetic results. Along with breast …
Cystic Breast Disease
Look at your mammogram or ultrasound consultation. There are many chances that it will say there that you have “fibrocystic breast changes”, “fibrocystic breast” or “fibrocystic breast disease picture”. So is fibrocystic breast a disease? Is it a deviation from normal? Do fibrocystic breasts need any special monitoring? Do fibrocystic changes require any …
Oncoplastic Breast Surgery (Oncoplastic Breast Surgery)
The history of medicine clearly shows that with the advancement of science, breast surgery is becoming less invasive and amputatory. We went from the old dramatic radical mastectomies to modified radical mastectomies and from there to quadridectomies and then to breast augmentations. This means that today, in most women, we …
Mastectomy and its place in modern times
Mastectomy in history
It was first described by the ancient Egyptians to treat breast tumors and has been practiced throughout human history in various ways and with dramatically bad results. It was scientifically described by Halsted in 1894, who proposed a very radical operation, with great trauma to the chest …
