9909-771 Lejour
Lejour M.
Vertical mammaplasty: update and appraisal of late results.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1999 Sep;104(3):771-81; discussion 782-4. PMID: 10456530
Institut Medical Edith Cavell, Brussels, Belgium. mlej4240@euronet.be
Vertical mammaplasty was evaluated after 10 years of experience and the study of
250 personal consecutive cases, and a few minor technical modifications are
presented. In the beginning, the main advantage of the technique seemed to be
the reduced amount of scarring, as this technique avoids submammary scars. With
more experience, the major advantages seem to be its adaptability to breasts of
various sizes and shapes and its good, consistent, and stable results.
Liposuction is useful and reliable, but it cannot be applied to all fatty
breasts because fat is sometimes intimately mixed with parenchyma and cannot be
reached by a blunt cannula. Vertical mammaplasty raises many questions among
surgeons. The most frequent were collected and answered in this report.
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