Breast cancer after breast augmentation is not rare, but cases of bilateral breast cancer after augmentation are not often reported. A 43-year-old woman attended our hospital because of a mass in her left breast. She had undergone breast augmentation by implants 4 years before at a cosmetic surgery clinic. There were operative scars in her bilateral axilla. A detailed examination revealed bilat...

BACKGROUND In breast reconstruction using implants after unilateral mastectomy, it is challenging to create a natural, ptotic contour, and asymmetry is a potential drawback. To achieve breast symmetry and an ideal shape for both breasts, we performed contralateral augmentation in patients undergoing breast reconstruction with implants. METHODS Patients underwent unilateral mastectomy and 2-st...

BACKGROUND The first Online Breast Augmentation Survey (Aesthetic Surg J 2004;24:117-135) reported on women who had undergone or who were considering breast augmentation with regard to motivation for surgery, patient satisfaction with results, and other issues. The Food and Drug Administration and others have also raised questions concerning informed consent, follow-up, health insurance, and re...

BACKGROUND Despite being the cosmetic procedure most performed worldwide, there are still few objective measurements of postoperative volumetric analysis of breast augmentation available in the literature. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate volumetric changes in the breast parenchyma after the placement of silicone implants in the subglandular plane. METHODS Thirty-four women w...

BACKGROUND Revisionary augmentation and revision of augmentation mastopexy are of considerable interest to plastic surgeons who perform breast surgery because of the procedures' complexity. In these cases, surgeons are faced with either thinned breast tissues resulting from large breast implants with tissue stretch or encapsulation caused by excessive scarring. To our knowledge, there are curre...

The cohort of patients was divided into four groups of thirty patients: • Group A: Patients submitted to the left breast reconstruction with tissue expander and implant after modified radical mastectomy • Group B: Patients submitted to the left breast reconstruction with expander and implant after skin/nipple sparing mastectomy • Group C: Patients submitted to subglandular breast augmentation •...