9702-386 Lejour
Lejour M.
Evaluation of fat in breast tissue removed by vertical mammaplasty.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1997 Feb;99(2):386-93. PMID: 9030144
Institute Medical Edith Cavell, Brussels, Belgium.
Breast liposuction, performed immediately prior to surgical reduction, has
proven to be an efficient adjuvant method to reduce large breasts, even in young
patients. Experience has shown, however, that liposuction is difficult or
impossible in breasts in which fat is intimately mixed with glandular tissue.
Clinical examination gives no information about the breast content. In order to
evaluate the fat content of the breast, 33 unselected specimens removed during
breast reductions (20 with liposuction and 13 without liposuction) were
subjected to melting in a microwave oven. The fat separated from the residue
could be weighed. This confirmed that pure glandular breasts are uncommon and
that breast fat varies largely from one patient to another, with extremes of 2
and 78 percent and a mean value of 48 percent. Breast fat increases with age,
with the body mass, and with the total volume of the breast. Clinical
implications of these new data deserve investigation.
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