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The Use of a Hyaluronic Acid-Carboxymethylcellulose Membrane as an Adhesion Barrier during Nipple Delay before Nipple-preserving Mastectomy.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open 2016 December
The desire for nipple-preserving mastectomies has increased over the past decade as studies have proven that the procedure has comparable oncologic risk as a traditional mastectomy in both therapeutic and prophylactic cases. Partial or complete nipple necrosis is a well-known complication of this procedure with rates in the literature ranging between 1% and 9%. In high-risk patients, surgeons are performing a delay procedure before the mastectomy to help improve nipple vascularity and decrease necrosis rates. We present a technique of using a short-lasting bioresorbable hyaluronate-carboxymethylcellulose membrane (Seprafilm; Genzyme, Cambridge, Mass.) during the delay procedure as an interpositional sheet, which prevents adhesion of the anterior breast skin from the underlying gland to both block revascularization to improve nipple perfusion and prevent the need for redissection of the previously created plane during the final mastectomy.
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