Breast capsulorrhaphy revisited: a simple technique for complex problems.

Breast Capsulorrhaphy Revisited: A Simple Technique Utilizing a Gore-Tex Mesh

Pocket conversion made easy: a simple technique using alloderm to convert subglandular breast implants to the dual-plane position.

BACKGROUND The advantages of dual-plane, partially submuscular breast implants are well documented. Standard conversion techniques to dual-plane positioning use marionette sutures and internal capsulorrhaphy sutures from the lower edge of the pectoralis major muscle to the anterior capsule or breast fascia within the subglandular plane. These techniques are limited by high rates of postoperativ...

Thermal capsulorrhaphy: a modified technique for breast pocket revision.

BACKGROUND Scant attention has been paid to breast capsule revision after augmentation mammaplasty. Dissatisfaction with traditional techniques prompted the senior authors to develop a thermal capsulorrhaphy (TC) technique to obliterate excess breast pocket space using ball cautery followed by barbed suture closure. OBJECTIVES The authors propose a new periprosthetic technique for pocket clos...

Endoscopic Correction of Inferior Implant Malposition in Augmented Breasts with Electrocauterization

Breast augmentation surgery has been the most popular cosmetic surgery in the United States since 2006, accounting for 290,000 cases in 2013 [1]. Unfortunately, complications from the procedure can result in a reoperation rate approaching 15.5%. Complications after breast augmentation include capsular contracture, size change, malposition, waviness, deflation, infection, ruptured gel, palpabili...

Simple suture and anchor in rabbit hips

OBJECTIVE USING BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES, THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO COMPARE HIP CAPSULORRHAPHY IN RABBITS, CARRIED OUT WITH TWO DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES: capsulorrhaphy with simple sutures and with anchors. METHOD Thirteen New Zealand Albino (Oryctolaguscuniculus) male rabbits, twenty-six hip joints, were used. First, a pilot project was performed with three rabbits (six hip joints). This experiment con...