Endoscopic microsurgery is a developing technique in plastic surgery. There are many advantages over traditional methods: improved access to difficult and hidden areas, better mobility, one optical instrument for endoscopic dissection and the microsurgical part, reduced overall costs, and a possibility to develop new procedures supported by the use of the endoscope. In the first volume of the series "Update in Plastic Surgery internationally acknowledged experts give an up-to-date view of the clinical possibilities in plastic surgery which result from video-assisted microsurgery with the...

Das Mammakarzinom ist die haufigste Krebserkrankung der Frau. Betrachtliche chirurgische Fortschritte der letzten Jahre haben sowohl eine gunstigere Prognose als auch verbesserte kosmetische Ergebnisse bewirkt. Auf diese wird konzise eingegangen und ein Uberblick uber derzeit gangige interventionelle, resektive und onkoplastische Konzepte geboten.

Neben den prasentierten Konzepten werden aber etablierte Therapien durch zum Teil noch experimentelle operative und strategische Modalitaten erganzt: Einerseits ist es notwendig, Standards und Qualitatsnormen darzulegen und auf ihre...

Endoscopic microsurgery is a developing technique in plastic surgery. There are many advantages over traditional methods: improved access to difficult and hidden areas, better mobility, one optical instrument for endoscopic dissection and the microsurgical part, reduced overall costs, and a possibility to develop new procedures supported by the use of the endoscope. In the first volume of the series "Update in Plastic Surgery internationally acknowledged experts give an up-to-date view of the clinical possibilities in plastic surgery which result from video-assisted microsurgery with the...