Periareolar closure in augmentation, mastopexy, and breast reduction has evolved dramatically over the past 10 years with changes in technique and technology. Plastic surgeons have tried many techniques from simple purse string closures using permanent sutures to interlocking purse string closures with GORE-TEX (Gore Medical, Newark, DE) or absorbable sutures. Running and interrupted suture tec...

BACKGROUND Breast augmentation is the most frequent procedure performed according to the 2009 Quick Facts report of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. This study presents the periareolar extra-glandular breast augmentation. METHODS From 2004 to 2010 among 32 female patients, peri-areolar incision was performed for breast augmentation. Dissection was performed in subcutaneous plane towa...

Background: Biomarkers are needed to refine short-term breast cancer risk estimates from epidemiologic models and to measure response to prevention interventions. The purpose of our study was to determine whether the cytologic appearance of epithelial cells obtained from breast random periareolar fine-needle aspirates or molecular marker expression in these cells was associated with later breas...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Batwing mastopexy (BWM) is an oncoplastic technique most commonly used in the treatment of 12 o'clock periareolar tumors. The aim of this study was to assess the early cosmetic results of BWM performed for periareolar lesions located in the upper quadrants, i.e. from 10 to 2 o'clock position. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN A prospective analysis of a preliminary group of 35 wome...

background surgery, as the main approach in higher stages of gynecomastia, has different techniques regarding the staging of the disease. the more the grade of gynecomastia, the more complicated the used surgical techniques, conventionally. this study assessed the success rate of the simplest surgical technique in higher grades of gynecology as well as the satisfaction rate in patients and surg...

Intradermal injections of indigo carmine for sentinel node mapping are considered safe and no report of an adverse reaction has been published. The authors described two cases of profound hypotension in women that underwent breast-conserving surgery after an intradermal injection of indigo carmine into the periareolar area for sentinel node mapping.

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node biopsy has been accepted as a standard procedure for early stage breast cancer. In this retrospective analysis, the results obtained with different methodological approaches using radiocolloid with or without blue dye were examined. METHODS A total of 158 sentinel lymph node biopsies were performed in 152 patients. Group A (85 patients) underwent lympha...

Augmentation mammaplasty is frequently used to fill out the soft tissue envelope of the breast. This is most successful with minimal skin laxity or when there is no need for significant nipple movement. The addition of a periareolar mastopexy can reduce the skin envelope; however, its value is limited to those with no more than mild second-degree ptosis. Although this is a valuable technique, t...