Subglandular Breast Reduction: The Evolution of a Minimal Scar Approach to Breast Reduction
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Vol. 113 (1), 175-184
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.prs.0000095945.27892.48
Abstract
The authors describe a new modification of the breast reduction procedure. By means of an inframammary incision, the breast is mobilized from the chest wall, and a "doughnut" annulus of breast tissue is removed from the undersurface of the gland. No skin is excised. The nipple-areola complex is left attached to a central core of breast tissue that receives its blood supply from the subdermal plexus of vessels. When the resulting defect is closed within the breast by strategically placed sutures, the base of the gland is narrowed, the breast is projected forward, and the circumareolar and vertical scars of other techniques are eliminated. The authors report their results in a series of 37 patients.Keywords
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