Influence of the presence of tissue expanders on energy deposition for post-mastectomy radiotherapy.

An increasing number of studies have shown that post-mastectomy radiotherapy presents benefits associated with the patients survival and a significant fraction of the treated patients makes use of tissue expanders for breast reconstruction. Some models of tissue expanders have a magnetic disk on the...

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Main Authors: Débora M Trombetta, Simone C Cardoso, Alessandro Facure, Ademir X da Silva, Luiz Antonio R da Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566153?pdf=render