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A
Adjuvant chemotherapy:
Adjuvant radiation therapy:
Adjuvant radiation therapy after mastectomy:
Adjuvant therapy:
Algorithm:
Ancillary health care providers:
Angiolymphatic invasion:
Anecdotal:
Areola:
Autoimmune disease:
Autologous flap:
 

B
Bilateral:
Bone marrow transplant:
Bone scan:
Bowtie nipple-areolar reconstruction:
Breast biopsy:
Breast cancer:
Breast care advocate:
Breast care center:
Breast conservation therapy:
Breast expander:
Breast implant:
Breast reconstruction:
Breast repositioning:
Breast self examination:
Breast skin envelope:
Breast tumor board:
 

C
Carcinoma in situ:
Cause and effect:
CEA:
Center of excellence:
Chemotherapy:
Chest wall invasion:
Clear margins:
Complications:
Contour deformity:
 

D
Diagnosis:
Double tier scarring:
Ductal breast cancer:
Ductal carcinoma in situ:
 

E
Estrogen receptor sites:
 

F
False negative:
False positive:
Fibromyalgia:
Flap:
Flap donor sites:
Flap loss:
Flap reconstruction:
Follow-up care:
Free flap:
Frozen section:
 

G
General surgeon:
Geneticist:
 

H
High risk:
Hospital:
Hypertrophic scarring:
 

I
Implant reconstruction:
Inframammary fold:
Intermediate risk:
Intraductal Breast Cancer:
Invasive breast cancer:
Involved margins:
 

J
J wire localization:
 

K
 

L
Lobular breast cancer:
Lobular carcinoma in situ:
Local recurrence after mastectomy:
Low risk:
Lupus:
Lymph nodes:
Lymph node dissection:
 

M
Mammogram:
Mastectomy:
Mastopexy:
Medical facilities:
Metastasis:
Metastatic workup:
Microvascular flap:
Modified radical mastectomy:
Multifocal:
Myocutaneous flap:
 

N
Needle biopsy:
Negative lymph nodes:
Neovascular flap:
Nipple:
Nipple-areolar pigmentation:
Nipple-areolar reconstruction:
Non invasive breast cancer:
Non palpable breast mass:
Nupagen:
 

O
oncologic:
Oncologist:
 

P
Palpable breast mass:
Palpation:
Path compromised:
Path not compromised:
Pathologist:
Pathology:
Patient's own tissue:
Pectoralis Peg flap:
Pectoralis muscle:
Peg flap:
Periareolar breast biopsy:
Permanent section:
Physicians:
Pigmentary discrepancy:
Plastic surgeon:
Positive lymph nodes:
Postmenopausal:
Premenopausal:
Primary radiation therapy:
Prognosis:
Ptosis:
 

Q
 

R
Radiation:
Radiation induced local recurrence:
Radiation oncologist:
Radiation therapy:
Radiation Treatment Center:
Radical mastectomy:
Random cutaneous flap:
Reconstruction:
reconstructive surgeon: Rectus muscle:
Recurrence:
Recurrence after mastectomy:
Recurrence after radiation:
Registered Nurse:
Residual breast tissue:
Revision:
Rheumatoid disease:
Risk benefit ratio:
 

S
Saline breast implant:
Scar:
Scleroderma:
Sentinel node biopsy:
Serratus muscle:
Silicone gel breast implant:
Size of tumor:
Size of invasive component:
Size of non invasive component:
Skin invasion:
skin pigment discrepancy:
Skin preservation mastectomy:
Skin resection mastectomy:
Skin-sparing mastectomy:
Standard breast biopsy:
Standard breast flap:
Standard nipple-areolar reconstruction:
Statistically significant:
Stem cell support:
Stereotaxic breast biopsy:
Subcutaneous mastectomy:
Submuscular pocket:
Surgery center:
Surveillance:
Symmetry:
 

T
Tamoxifen:
TMN staging:
TRAM flap:
Treatment:
 

U
Unifocal:
Unilateral:
 

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