ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses strategies to surgically manage breast cancer–related lymphedema. Microsurgical techniques, like lymphovenous anastomosis and vascularized lymph node transfers, for early lymphedema and ablative procedures, like liposuction and excisional procedures, for late-stage cancer are discussed. Surgical options, like axillary reverse mapping and sentinel node biopsy, and the lymphatic microsurgical preventive healing approach, which are used to prevent lymphedema in patients who undergo surgical treatment for breast cancers, are looked at as well.
