Reduction mammaplasty has long been performed for the correction of symptoms associated with macromastia and for psychosocial reasons. With rising health care costs, there is increased scrutiny of the relative cost and/or benefit of many therapeutic interventions with the view to determining who or what does and does not get covered by insurance plans. When the present study was first proposed,...

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...

BACKGROUND Occult breast carcinoma is occasionally found in reduction mammaplasty specimens. Historically, these patients were treated with mastectomy because the exact location of the tumor was unknown. Currently, breast conservation is the treatment of choice in 50 to 85 percent of breast cancers. The authors present a technique of routine specimen marking that allows localization of the tumo...