The Halsted operation versus modified radical mastectomy: usefulness of patient selection as a function of the type and site of the tumor.

Abstract

Abstract ystematic analysis of the pectoral muscle and fascia disclosed neoplastic infiltration in 6.2% of our stage T2a cases. Accordingly the authors propose a Halsted type resection in all cases staged T3, T2b and T2a when the tumor is located deep in the gland