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PRIETO CORDOVES, Yolexis; SERRANO GONZALEZ, Luisa María; BACALLAO CABRERA, Iris Susana  y  GUILLEMI ALVAREZ, Natacha María. Importance of muscular system in breast cancer patients: a science, technology and society approach. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.1, pp. 180-200. ISSN 1727-8120.

The present text is the result of a study directed to demonstrate the importance of the muscular system in women who had a surgery on breast cancer, illness with high incidence in Cuba and the world. It was investigated in the principal anatomical reports. It began with the documentary review of basic texts for the career of Medicine inherent to the subject Human Anatomy. It was corroborated that authors like M. Prives, N Lisenkov and V Bushkovich and R. D. Sinelnikov; they describe the muscles, but they do not report their importance in surgical practice. It was used the searche engines on Internet and other web sites of scientific information, which allowed to corroborate from an approach of science, technology and society the importance of the muscular tissue andits application in reconstructive techniques in patients who undergoa breast cancer surgery. It was stated that the most used muscles are the abdominal rectus, the latissimusdorsi, the graceful ones and the adipose tissue of the gluteus fold.

Palabras clave : breast cancer; muscles; reconstructive techniques.

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