SUMMARY Symmetry is a topic of utmost importance when interviewing a patient who comes asking for cosmetic surgery. We must warn that asymmetry is "the normal." There is no perfect symmetry in the human body, and this overstated search can be sign of psychological and psychiatric disorders. Sometimes multiple procedures are needed to improve a breast's symmetry and appearance. To give an extra ...

UNLABELLED The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap is a state-of-the-art option for breast reconstruction. However, thin patients with medium- to large-size native breasts are not ideal candidates due to the limited amount of available tissue. We reviewed our experience utilizing the DIEP flap in combination with prosthetic implants. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cha...

Nearly 15 million patients undergo cosmetic surgery in the United States each year, with breast augmentations such as implants, lifts, or reductions being some of most common procedures. The complications these procedures are scarring and infection at incision site, which often necessitates expensive corrective surgery. After significant weight loss, patient this study underwent an elective low...

Introduction: High-riding nipple following reduction mammoplasty is a challenging problem for the plastic surgeons. To avoid such problem, many methods have been described marking correct position but still controversial. We aimed in this study to present our experience preventing excessive elevation after by using upper footprint set new position. Material and Methods: From March 2019 2022, 25...

1 BackGROund Many patients are referred to our urban academic health center to be evaluated for symptomatic macromastia. Many are poor candidates for surgery. In June 2015, we developed and implemented a nurse practitioner–conducted program to educate and screen patients interested in reduction mammoplasty before initial consultation with a surgeon. The aim of this study was to determine the im...

In this presentation of 2 consecutive cases of symptomatic juvenile breast hypertrophy in Ghana, we review the patient presentation, workup, and discuss outcomes following a combined technique of inferior pedicle stump with free nipple graft reduction mammoplasty. Surgical goals for treatment of gigantomastia were 2-fold: to resect adequate tissue to obtain symptomatic relief with improved qual...

BACKGROUND Reduction mammoplasty is an often-performed procedure by plastic surgeons and increasingly by general surgeons. The question has been posed in both general surgical literature and plastic surgical literature as to whether this procedure should remain the domain of surgical specialists. Some general surgeons are trained in breast reductions, whereas all plastic surgeons receive traini...