No vertical scar breast reduction: A good alternative to the T-scar inferior pedicle breast reduction
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Breast Reduction with the Superior Parenchymal Pedicle: T-scar Approach
Breast reduction for macromastia is a highly efficacious procedure with a high degree of patient satisfaction and a low rate of complications. The T-scar superior and superomedial pedicle techniques offer safe, reliable, and easily reproducible means of breast reduction, with a versatility that works for extremely large breasts while avoiding the bottoming out of inferior/central mound methods....
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In a previous article, White et al 1 concluded that the horizontal breast reduction technique yields superior breast scars. The authors claimed that theirs was the first prospective study to evaluate breast reduction scars. However, other published studies, both prospective and retrospective , have compared vertical and inverted-T scars, finding that patients prefer a vertical scar. One study, ...
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We thank Dr Swanson for his detailed analysis of our article.1 In recent years, aesthetic surgeons have been heavily biased toward the vertical scar breast reduction technique. Horizontal breast reduction has generally been excluded from the literature. None of the articles referenced in Dr Swanson’s letter include horizontal reduction, thus rendering most of the comments inapplicable. Our stud...
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عنوان ژورنال: Plastic Surgery
سال: 2000
ISSN: 2292-5503
DOI: 10.4172/plastic-surgery.1000242