Abstract
In mammoplasty the goal of the surgeon is giving the breast new form and volume and good, durable shape with minimal scarring. This article presents a simple technique of reduction mammoplasty that avoids incisions in the so-called hypertrophic areas of the chest, the medial and the lateral extremities of the submammary fold. The technique is based on nipple transposition on a superior semicircular flap in the new predetermined side, supra-areolar dermopexy. The skin of the inferior pole of the breast is internally de-epithelized to two curvilinear incisions that end near the projection of the anterior axillary line to form an inferior dermal flap for retropectoral dermopexy. The limited residual scar is L-shaped. Ptotic and hypertrophic breasts can be treated with this method.
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De Longis, E. Mammoplasty with an L-shaped limited scar and retropectoral dermopexy. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 10, 171–175 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01575288
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