Primary tumor location predicts the site of local relapse after nipple-areola complex (NAC) sparing mastectomy.
Nicoletta Tomasi ContFurio MaggiorottoLaura MartincichAlessandro RivolinFranziska KubatzkiPaola SgandurraFrancesco MaroccoAlessandra MagistrisMarco GattiDavide BalmativolaFilippo MontemurroAnna SapinoRiccardo PonzonePublished in: Breast cancer research and treatment (2017)
NAC involvement can be predicted by MRI and intraoperative pathology of ND/SD. Local recurrences after NAC sparing mastectomy almost invariably develop in the same quadrant where the primary tumor was located and in highly proliferative tumors.