• Péter Kelemen, Mihály Újhelyi, Dávid Pukancsik, Ákos Sávolt, Eszter Kovács, Zoltán Zaka, Zsuzsa Sándor, and Zoltán Mátrai.
• Daganatsebészeti Központ, Emlő-Lágyrész Daganatsebészeti Osztály,Országos Onkológiai Intézet Budapest, Ráth György u. 7-9., 1122.
• Orv Hetil. 2020 Jun 1; 161 (24): 1002-1011.

Introduction And AimThis study aimed to describe the modified Regnault "B" oncoplastic technique as a standard volume-displacement level II oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery and the related clinicopathological study.MethodA retrospective, single-centre study was performed between April 2012 and October 2018 involving 215 breast-cancer patients. Patient characteristics and postoperative complications were recorded, and the quality of life was rated by questionnaires. Aesthetic outcomes were evaluated with BCCT.core software and a five-point Likert scale.ResultsThe mean patient age was 53 years (range: 29-81 years), with a median follow-up of 47 months (range: 7-85 months). The average surgery time was 47 min (range: 35-85 min) and the pathological average size of the tumours was 33 mm (range: 18-58 mm). Due to positive surgical margins, 13 (6%) completion re-excisions and 3 (1.4%) mastectomies were performed. In total, 16 complications (7.4%) were recorded. The median Likert scale score was 4.2, and the median overall aesthetic outcome assessed by BCCT.core was 1.3 points. According to the quality of life questionnaire, average points of the results demonstrated a high level of patient satisfaction.ConclusionIn medium- to large-breasted patients, the modified Regnault "B" technique is a safe and repeatable level II volume-displacement oncoplastic breast-conservation technique. This technique allows extended removal (20-50% of breast tissue) of T1-T3 tumours from the upper outer quadrant and the border of outer quadrants of the breast with improved aesthetic results. The advantage of this technique is that contralateral symmetrisation is not required, while disadvantage of this technique is the skin incision on the breast skin envelope that can make some difficulties when completion mastectomy is required with immediate reconstruction. Orv Hetil. 2020; 161(24): 1002-1011.

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