Sentence examples for breast defect from inspiring English sources
The breast defect (c) was repaired and filled with the FDFG, with the denuded surface fitted to the pectoralis major muscle (d).
It can be moved into the breast defect while still attached to its blood supply under the axilla.
Studies where fat grafting was used for the purposes of cosmetic breast augmentation or to reconstruct traumatic breast defects (such as breast amputations, ballistic or blast trauma or burns) will be excluded.
A 23-year-old woman showed several signs of Poland syndrome on her right side including absence of the right breast, defects of chest muscles such as the pectoralis major, defects in the ribs and costal cartilages, and webbing of the axillary fold, hypoplastic skin, and subcutaneous tissues.
Consistent with a luminal progenitor cell defect, breast tissue from BRCA1 mutation carriers generally showed an increase in this subset relative to the total epithelial population.
Given the mechanistic heterogeneity of the different breast cancers harboring defects in DNA repair, novel screening approaches could help in determining which patients may benefit from PARP inhibition and similar therapies.
Such factors may not be needed for breast tumors with a defect in a non-essential gene such as CHEK2.
In the present study, the authors focused solely on factors influencing outcome in 41 patients who underwent repair of a partial mastectomy defect using breast reduction.
The authors provide practical guidelines for repairing a partial mastectomy defect using breast reduction that should minimize the occurrence of complications and optimize the cosmetic outcome [ 1].
At present, the functional impact of the p.R215W NBN defect in breast cancer susceptibility is still controversial, but evidence is accumulating that this mutation might predispose individuals to disease.
Read-through fusion transcripts between adjacent genes with different biochemical functions represent a new type of recurrent molecular defect in breast cancer that warrant further investigation as potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
