Not surprisingly, we found a significant trend toward higher rates of total complications, capsular contracture, and reconstruction failure in patients who received PMRT as we have previously observed.
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The role of postmastectomy radiation therapy in patients with immediate prosthetic breast reconstruction: A meta-analysis.
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This is the first meta-analysis to focus on the risks of PMRT with respect to each type of complication encountered with immediate implant-based breast reconstruction, and it provides a clear trend based on 15 well-controlled cohort studies that were published in the past 15 years, comprised of more than 8200 prosthetic reconstruction cases.