The surgical section of the Breast Unit of the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia has launched a new surgical technique for breast pathology. It is the endoscopic technique to intervene on breast tumors.
The technique has recently been implemented by the team of professionals formed by Dr. Elvira Buch, who leads the team, and Marcos Adrianzén, Dr. Vicente López and Dr. Ernesto Muñoz.
“Advances in breast surgery techniques are constant. Every time we find ourselves with younger patients and patients who need a good quality of life as well as maintaining their aesthetics and at the same time receiving good oncological treatment. All of this forces us to seek surgical treatments that are as conservative as possible, to obtain the least possible breast deformity,” explained Dr. Elvira Buch, section head of the General Surgery Service of the Hospital Clínico de València.
Endoscopic breast surgery represents a minimally invasive approach with the goal of safely removing the cancer while preserving the skin of the breast and avoiding visible wounds. With the endoscopic technique scars are reduced as it is performed through small incisions in less visible spaces of the breast.
“The breast unit of the Hospital Clínico de València usually makes incisions that are as invisible as possible, but with the endoscopic one, the goal is to move away from the areola, leaving the scar in the furrows (lateral or lower of the breast)” explained Elvira Buch.
As the specialists of the surgical section of the Breast Unit reported, “It is a new technique, therefore it is not generalized in all operations of this type, however it is a new path with great expectations. We believe that it is indicated in some cases of breast-conserving surgery, in skin-saving mastectomies and in the nipple-areola complex and in the axillary region, in some cases this technique is also performed in lymphadenectomies”.
The Hospital Clínico Universitario de València performs 350 breast pathology operations a year, 95% of the cases are performed in the modality of major outpatient surgery or surgery without hospitalization.
