The advantages of non-prefixed marking for breast reduction are discussed in this paper. The authors use a curved incision modification of the Pitanguy technique, stressing the value of changing the demarcation depending on the skin-gland relationship of each patient.

BACKGROUND Gigantomastia is a rare condition characterized by excessive breast growth and can be physically and psychosocially disabling for the patient. Regarding management of gigantomastia, this study evaluates the outcomes of superomedial pedicle with vertical scar or wise pattern skin excision. METHODS A total of 425 patients who underwent reduction mammoplasty in our institution ...

BACKGROUND The antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid is currently being rediscovered for both trauma and major surgery. Intravenous administration reduces the need for blood transfusion and blood loss by about one-third, but routine administration in surgery is not yet advocated owing to concerns regarding thromboembolic events. The aim of this study was to investigate whether topical applicati...

SUMMARY Mastopexy and reduction mammoplasty share techniques of pedicle formation and skin excision patterns, with the main difference being the amount of breast tissue resected. Various types of excision patterns and orientation of pedicles were developed throughout the years, each with flares of popularity at different times. This article reviews the multiple techniques of pedicle orientation...

We have investigated the time course of the coagulation and fibrinolytic changes during moderate surgical trauma (elective reduction mammoplasty) in the absence of other confounding factors that could affect haemostasis. Specific markers for coagulation (prothrombin fragment 1.2 (F1.2), thrombin-antithrombin III complex (TAT)) and fibrinolysis (plasmin-antiplasmin complex (PAP) and D-dimer) wer...

macromastia and received both preand postoperative surveys. All patients who attended shared medical appointments during the study period were administered the preoperative BREAST-Q1 as a condition-specific measure of satisfaction and wellbeing. Patients who received surgical treatment were also administered the postoperative BREAST-Q at least 3 months after surgery. BREAST-Q scores range from ...

Central venous stenosis is a rare cause of unilateral breast edema occurring in hemodialysis patients that needs to be differentiated from other differential diagnoses, including, but not limited to, inflammatory breast carcinoma, mastitis, lymphedema, and congestive heart failure. All reports of similar cases in the available literature have described improvement or resolution of the edema aft...

AIM Breast carcinoma occurring in routine reduction mammaplasty is rare. MATERIAL OF STUDY In our Breast Unit each patient eligible for any breast surgery is routinely evaluated by preoperative breast imaging. We reported the clinical case of a woman with an infiltrating lobular breast cancer detected during surgical reduction mammaplasty despite a negative preoperative bilateral mammography....