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Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA) Guide to Clinical Breast Assessment (CBA)
Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA) is an international body of experts from disciplines of surgery, radiology, pathology, medical and radiation oncology, plastic surgery, and breast support group dedicated to ...
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ASOMA GUIDE for Managing Breast Pain
The breast pain or mastalgia is the commonest presenting symptom to a breast clinic. It is estimated that about 60 to 70% of all patients visiting breast clinic suffer from mastalgia. In majority of women, mas...
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Genetic Predisposition to Breast Cancer and Its Management
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Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA)–Proposed Standards for Care of Breast Cancer Patients
The Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA) was established with an attempt to bring together experts in the field of breast surgery, radiation oncology, medical oncology, radiology, pathology, and breast care nurs...
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Surgery for Benign Breast Disorders
Benign non-neoplastic conditions of the breast show a wide variety of proliferative and regressive changes in the breast parenchyma, epithelial elements, and stroma. Some of these form distinct entities, but t...
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Historical Overview of Breast Surgery
Contemporary treatment of breast cancer is complex and involves multimodalities such as surgery, radiotherapy, and combinatorial systemic therapies. Despite a rising incidence, mortality rates from breast canc...
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Anatomy
The breasts are skin appendages that phylogenetically represent modified sweat glands on the anterior thoracic wall. The detailed anatomy and development of the breast have relevance to the operating breast su...
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Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery
Breast reconstruction is frequently offered to women undergoing either mastectomy or breast conservation, given its safe nature and ability to achieve highly aesthetic reconstructive outcomes. Many options are...
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Diagnostic Pathways
Evaluation of breast cases is based on the principle of “triple assessment” involving a combination of clinical examination, imaging, and tissue biopsy. This yields an overall accuracy of almost 100% and permi...
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Surgery for Breast Cancer
The term mastectomy refers to surgical extirpation of all breast parenchymal tissue, and any procedure that intentionally aims to preserve a proportion of breast tissue is otherwise known as breast conserving ...