Color Atlas of Mammaplasty

The ‘Cleavage Imprinting’ Technique for Ensuring Mirror Image Medial Scar Symmetry in Reduction Mammoplasty

“…Other studies have also confirmed the fact that the horizontal scar from reduction 5 Plastic Surgery: An International Journal mammaplasty is the component that most bothers patients and leads to greatest dissatisfaction (Sprole, 2007;Cruz-Korchin, 2003). Various methods have been used in an attempt to ensure symmetry in breast surgery, ranging from tape measures (Spear, 2007), callipers (McKissock, 1991) or a goniometer (Lazarus, 1998) to a skin marker pen attached to a pendulum made from a silk suture in a midline structure (Raveendran, 2008). A study of 100 patients undergoing breast augmentation showed 88 percent of the women had some degree of asymmetry, with 65 percent having more than one parameter involved (e.g.…”

Bipedicle Breast Reduction

“…The McKissock bipedicle breast reduction [ 1 ] has excellent blood supply is from (1) the intercostal arteries, derived from the aorta, give off mammary branches from the third, fourth, and fi fth intercostal spaces, (2) the intercostal branches of the internal mammary artery supply to the breast, and (3) the lateral thoracic artery, derived from the axillary artery, through external mammary branch. Medial intercostal perforators are responsible for directly supplying inferomedial and central parenchyma inferior to the nipple.…”

Principles of Breast Reduction Surgery

“…a. When the excision will be over 1 kg in weight [2] or when the distance from the inframammary fold to the upper rim of the keyhole pattern exceeds 35 cm [2]. b.…”