Benefits and adverse effects of using surgical meshes in sub-pectoral implant-based breast reconstruction

Abstract

n Egypt and according to the National Cancer Registry Program (NCRP), breast cancer is the second most cancer in both sexes (15.4 %) after liver cancers (23.8%) and the most common cancer in females (32%) with incidence crude rate estimated as 35.8 case per 100,000 females in 2011. Mastectomies became one of the main surgical procedures in which it has been estimated that about 28 – 60 % of women that diagnosed as breast cancer underwent mastectomy operations. One of the recent techniques that we are concerned about in this study has been introduced in 2005 by Karl H. Breuing and it was by creating an Inferolateral AlloDerm Slings for coverage of the inferior and lateral poles of an implant after skin sparing mastectomy in sub-pectoral placement implant-based breast reconstruction. Recently surgical companies started to manufacture new types of surgical meshes for the same purpose of AlloDerm to act like a sling to cover the Inferolateral part of the implant.