Austrian follow up study on breast reconstruction

Introduction: Although breast reconstruction has become more and more accepted immediately or secondary to breast cancer surgery over the last few years, objective multi-centre follow up studies have to exclude any negative late effect of breast reconstruction on the oncological run of the breast cancer disease. Further on the optimal techniques of reconstruction for the different kind of defects and for the different individual anatomical situations have to be evaluated together with the effect on the psychosocial situation of the patient. Methods: A questionnaire on breast reconstruction has been developed and…