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Plastic adipectomy is a justifiable and in many instances an imperative operation.
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Details and technic must be minutely carried out if success is to be obtained in this particular branch of surgery.
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A thorough study of the case prior to operation and a clear cut or definite outline formed of the desired result of adipectomy in the individual case is imperative.
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Further experiment and study will place operations for the reconstruction of the human form, and will establish for these operations their undeniable place in surgery.
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With proper technic the ablated fat masses do not recur. American Hospital.
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Editorial Note by Blair O. Rogers, M.D. In the history of mammaplasty, the very first few articles dealing with breast reduction with free transplantation of the nipple were reported in 1922 by Max Thorek and in 1925 by Erich Lexer. According to Hinderer, Lexer was the first in the history of mammaplasty to perform breast reduction with an “open” nipple-areola complex transposition with preservation of the continuity of the skin to the remaining gland which he reported in the Spanish literature in 1921, and this was followed soon thereafter by Aubert in Marseilles who described reduction with transposition in 1923. Lexer and Aubert's description of mammary reduction with nipple transposition were thus milestones in the history of reduction mammaplasty. But it is to Thorek that credit should be given for the “first” reduction with free transplantation of the nipple, unless plastic surgeons throughout the world can bring to our attention any earlier successful results which, to date, medical historians have not been aware of.
Read before the North Shore Branch, Chicago Medical Society, April, 1921. Reprinted fromNew York Medical Journal and Medical Record, pp. 572–575, 1922.
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Thorek, M. Possibilities in the reconstruction of the human form. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 13, 55–58 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01570326
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