Nipple reduction - An adjunct to augmentation mammaplasty

Nipple reduction - An adjunct to augmentation mammaplasty.

Nipple hypertrophy is an occasional deformity in Asians and a rare one in Caucasians. Lately, it has been showing up more often in plastic surgeons' offices across North America and elsewhere, owing to the influx of Asian immigration worldwide, as well as to the rising interest in esthetic surgery among Asian communities.A simplified technique for nipple reduction is described herein. It is ver...

Commentary on: Nipple areola reconstructing reduction mammaplasty.

Comparison study of nipple-areolar sensation after reduction mammaplasty.

BACKGROUND Although many techniques of reduction mammaplasty are currently in use, a prospective study quantitating the sensation of the nipple-areolar complex (NAC) after the performance of specific techniques has not been performed. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to quantitate the postoperative sensation of the NAC after reduction mammaplasty and to compare the results on the basis...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR A New Application to Free-Nipple-Graft Reduction Mammaplasty for Breast and Nipple Projection

Gamze Bektas, MD, Anı Cinpolat, MD, Polat Bicici, MD, Kerim Unal, MD, and O. Koray Coskunfirat, MD aDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Tatvan State Hospital, Bitlis, Turkey; bDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital, Adana, Turkey; and cDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Akdeniz U...

Contralateral Breast Symmetrisation in Immediate Prosthetic Breast Reconstruction after Unilateral Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy: The Tailored Reduction/Augmentation Mammaplasty

BACKGROUND In the literature on nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with one-stage immediate implant reconstruction, contralateral symmetrisation has drawn little attention, with many surgeons still performing standard cosmetic mammaplasty procedures. However, standard implant-based mammaplasty usually does not result in proper symmetry with the mastectomy side, especially regarding breast projecti...