Surgery today
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We report a case of early breast cancer, which was treated successfully by oncoplastic surgery. A 65-year-old Japanese woman was referred to us for investigation of a grouped calcification on mammography of her left breast, detected during mass screening for breast cancer. ⋯ Achieving a good symmetrical outcome after partial mastectomy would have been made difficult by the degree of ptosis. Thus, we performed partial mastectomy followed by an amputation-type reduction operation with free nipple-areola complex grafting, which achieved good cosmetic and oncologic results.