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Please explain why would it be a radical mastectomy instead of elephantiasis?
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Unrelated: Radical mastectomy , for cancer where chest walk muscles also taken with breast and lymph nodes no longer being done . Elephantiasis is condition seen in tropics , filarial infection , lymph vessels are completely blocked result in fluid accumulation , leg looks like elephant leg . Other disease when lymph is blocked will have similar appearance
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