Commentary on: Liposuction-Augmentation Mammaplasty

Commentary on: Power-Assisted Liposuction Mammaplasty (PALM): A New Technique for Breast Reduction.

BACKGROUND Resection and reshaping of the parenchyma are common procedures to produce a natural breast shape in reduction mammaplasty and mastopexy. The challenges of these practices include maintaining sensitivity of the nipple-areola complex (NAC), achieving upper-pole fullness, and preserving an adequate blood supply for patients with massive breast ptosis. OBJECTIVES The authors describe ...

Triplane augmentation mammaplasty.

BACKGROUND Sub-muscular positioning of breast implants requires interrupting as well as disinserting both the abdominal and sterno-chondral fibers of the pectoral muscle; this can produce a muscular strength reduction which reveal bothering and is often detected in some daily motions, such as cutting bread into slices. MATERIAL AND METHODS The revision of anatomy and literature induced the au...

Commentary on: Asymmetry of Inframammary Folds in Patients Undergoing Augmentation Mammaplasty.

When patients present with reasonable symmetry in volume, base diameter, and inframammary fold position, breast augmentation can be a predictable, straightforward procedure. Unfortunately, this scenario is not the norm and dealing with preoperative asymmetries in all of these parameters can represent one of the biggest obstacles to providing outstanding results in breast augmentation. It is wit...

Fat Grafting Breast Augmentation Mammaplasty

DESCRIPTION A middle-aged woman presented to the plastic surgery clinic for breast augmentation. Fat grafting augmentation mammaplasty was performed successfully.

Commentary on: Nipple areola reconstructing reduction mammaplasty.