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. 2021 Oct 29;2021(10):CD013658. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013658.pub2

Palsodittlir 2018.

Study characteristics
Methods Retrospective single‐centre cohort
January 2008 to Dec 2014
University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
750 participants
Participants Inclusion:
Women with breast cancer undergoing breast‐conserving surgery
Exclusion:
  • Mastectomy

  • No tumour seen in the removed breast

  • Bilateral surgery and males

Interventions Intervention:
Volume displacement and replacement (analysed together), (n = 85);
Volume displacement (89.4%) ‐ glandular rotational flaps or the use of secondary or extended dermoglandular flaps within the breast and may
often involve the use of breast reduction techniques
Volume replacement (10.6%) ‐ chest wall perforator
flaps (lateral intercostal artery perforator (LICAP); intercostal perforator (ICAP) or pedicled flaps (thoracodorsal artery perforator (T‐DAP) or latissimus dorsi ( LD‐miniflap)
Control:
standard BCS, (n = 665)
Outcomes Primary outcomes:
  • No outcomes of interest


Secondary outcomes:
  • Re‐excisions

  • Complications

  • Time to adjuvant therapy

  • PROMs (self‐designed)


Other outcomes:
  • Length of stay

  • Margins

Notes No disclosures declared
Funding: Visindasjoour Landspitalans (Landspitali Uni Hosp reserch fund)