Risk-to-Benefit Relationship of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: The Argument for Bilateral Mastectomies with Immediate Reconstruction

Conclusions: Immediate reconstruction for unilateral mastectomy and contralateral prophylactic mastectomy have similar complication risk profiles, among patients as a whole and between individual breasts. These findings contribute to our understanding of the clinical impact prophylactic mastectomy and reconstruction may have on optimizing the counseling among extirpative surgeons, reconstructive surgeons, and patients. CLINICAL QUESTION/LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic, III.
Source: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: Breast: Original Articles Source Type: research