Skin Sparing Mastectomy with Immediate Reconstruction in Early Breast Carcinoma: A Preliminary Study
Sukanya Sriussadaporn MD*, Apichai Angspatt MD*
Affiliation : * Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Background and
Objective : Surgical treatment for breast cancer has some special aspects different from other cancers,
since surgeons have to concern of both oncologic safety and esthetic outcome. Modifi ed radical mastectomy (MRM) can
give the oncologic safety but not esthetic outcome. Breast conserving therapy improves cosmetic but results in more local
recurrence than modifi ed radical mastectomy. Skin sparing mastectomy (SSM) with immediate reconstruction for early
breast cancer has been reported by several investigators to have comparable outcome with MRM and better esthetic result.
The purpose of the present study was to examine patients who underwent SSM with immediate reconstruction at King
Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital.
Material and Method: Patients who underwent SSM with immediate reconstruction by the authors at King Chulalongkorn
Memorial Hospital, Bangkok Thailand between May 2007 and January 2011 were studied. The immediate reconstruction
was performed with transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous fl aps or latissimus dorsi fl aps. Postoperative early and
late complications as well as local recurrence were studied to examine the oncologic safety and esthetic outcome.
Results : Fourteen patients were enrolled into the present study. The age ranged from 33 to 59 years (mean 47 years). The
follow up time ranged from six to 50 months (mean 26.5 months). Postoperative complications included wound infection
in one patient (7%), seroma at donor site of latissimus dorsi fl aps in two patients (40%) and fat necrosis in fi ve patients
(55%). There was no skin fl ap necrosis, no hematoma, no arm numbness, no wound dehiscense, no abdominal wall hernia,
and no lymphedema of the arm. No local recurrence was detected.
Conclusion : This preliminary report shows that skin-sparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction is a good alternative
in management of early breast cancer. There was no serious postoperative complication. The esthetic result was acceptable.
No local recurrence was observed. Long-term follow up with more patients are required to confi rm its applicability in early
breast cancer patients.
Keywords : Skin sparing mastectomy, Immediate reconstruction, Early breast carcinoma
