Figure 1.

Operative design for patients with lower half located breast cancer. If margin status of the quadrantectomy specimen was adequate, a long skin incision was made from the axilla to the tumor site along the anterior axillary line and inframammary fold. The axillary triangles: axillary skin and underlying fibrofatty tissue which was later removed in this procedure. The triangles with dots: tumor sites where the overlying skin and the tumor down to the chest wall will be removed. Dotted lines indicate the direction of the motion of the skin along the long incision line.