Hidradenitis suppurativa is a rare chronic skin condition involving the apocrine glandular zones, which are found predominantly in the axilla and inguinoperineal regions, but have been described at other sites, including the inframammary fold. Treatment requires complex surgical intervention with wide excision of involved tissue. Inframammary hidradenitis tends to affect young women and can pro...

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Breast asymmetry is a polyetiological condition, which may be caused by congenital characteristics, developmental abnormalities, hormonal changes, traumas or surgery. The estimation of breast symmetry should performed the plastic surgeon while planning augmentation reduction mammoplasty as well reconstructive widespread according to some reports, it can found in more than half women. Anthropome...

Introduction. Fibroadenomas (FA) are the most common benign breast neoplasms that diagnosed in 25% of women. Dissatisfaction with size and desire to increase it occurs 40%. For this reason, practice a plastic surgeon, there cases when patient wants remove fibroadenomas breast. In situation, two options for managing patient- simultaneous execution operations delayed one.Aim. To evaluate possibil...

1 Leonidas Pavlidis Georgia A. Spyropoulou Antonis Tsimponis Efterpi Demiri Department of Plastic Surgery Papageorgiou Hospital Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece Sir, A skin has never been reported as contraindication for surgery. Approximately 290,000 patients underwent an augmentation mammoplasty in 2013, whereas for the same year, the number of implant removals for br...

INTRODUCTION Indication for breast reduction in a publically funded or an insurance-funded setting depends on the severity of the subjective symptoms and on the clinical evaluation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether Danish surgeons follow a clinical practice recommending a minimum tissue resection weight of 400-500 g per breast. METHODS Included in the study were a total of 36...

OBJECTIVE To study the tissue pathology of breast lesions associated with hydrophilic polyacrylamide gel injection augmentation mammoplasty. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Private anatomical pathology practice, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Eight patients who underwent lumpectomy of the breast due to complications of hydrophilic polyacrylamide gel injection for augmentation mammoplasty. MAIN...

BACKGROUND The body of literature documenting normative breast sensation and postoperative changes in sensation after reduction mammaplasty has grown considerably over the last several years. Despite this, only two studies have ever been published on the subject of postaugmentation mammaplasty sensory outcomes. The purpose of this study was to precisely measure sensory thresholds at the nipple-...

Keloid scar is a manifestation of abnormal wound healing in predisposed individuals. Many treatment modalities have been tried with varying degrees of success. Radiotherapy is one such modality that is widely recognised. We present a case report and literature review based on a patient who developed unilateral keloid scarring following bilateral breast reduction surgery. Some 4 years previously...

BACKGROUND The duration to close an incision is an important consideration in plastic surgery. The placement of Insorb absorbable subcuticular staples (Insorb, Incisive Surgical, Plymouth, MN) may allow for a decreased closure time compared with other modalities. OBJECTIVES The authors evaluated the utility of Insorb staples for the closure of mammaplasty and abdominoplasty incisions. METHO...