Thermal Capsulorrhaphy: A Modified Technique for Breast Pocket Revision
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Thermal capsulorrhaphy: a modified technique for breast pocket revision.
BACKGROUND Scant attention has been paid to breast capsule revision after augmentation mammaplasty. Dissatisfaction with traditional techniques prompted the senior authors to develop a thermal capsulorrhaphy (TC) technique to obliterate excess breast pocket space using ball cautery followed by barbed suture closure. OBJECTIVES The authors propose a new periprosthetic technique for pocket clos...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aesthetic Surgery Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1527-330X,1090-820X
DOI: 10.1177/1090820x14542650