reduction mammoplasty

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Surgical reduction of oversized breasts, a reconstructive procedure warranted when oversize breasts interfere with normal function and physical activity. The procedure involves removing excess breast tissue and skin, repositioning the nipple and areola and reshaping the remaining breast tissue

reduction mammoplasty

Surgery A procedure intended to ↓ size of hypertrophied and/or ptotic breasts. See Mammoplasty. Cf Augmentation Mammoplasty.

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The primary aim of the surgery when achievable is to remove the mass and perform a reduction mammoplasty to match the normal opposite breast without a contralateral symmetrisation procedure.

Surgery for giant tumours of the breast: a 15 year review

For congenital symmastia with macromastia, concurrent liposuction is more useful than reduction mammoplasty because direct excision of the upper web-like tissue might be insufficient, and because it minimizes injury to the internal mammary vessels.

Correction of Congenital Symmastia with Macromastia: Report of a Rare Case and Devised Treatment Algorithm

"Surgical reduction mammoplasty has been shown to reduce the incidence of breast cancer, and has even been suggested as a prophylactic procedure.

Low-key procedure that can change a woman's life; Significant numbers of women with large breasts feel uncomfortable, both physically and psychologically, with what nature has given them. Dr Harryono Judodihardjo, founder and medical director of the Cellite Clinic in Cardiff, explains the benefits and complications of breast reduction using liposuction

Here we presented a case of epidermal inclusion cyst of the breast in a patient post bilateral reduction mammoplasty who complained of nonbloody nipple discharge, found to be secondary to ruptured epidermal inclusion cyst.

Rare case of benign epidermal inclusion cyst mimicking malignancy

Crikelair and Malton [4] published the first reported case of occult carcinoma discovered during reduction mammoplasty in 1959.

Pathological findings in reduction mammoplasty specimens: a South African perspective

IORT boost radiotherapy was combined with oncoplastic principles for partial mastectomy reconstruction as follows: glandular rotation (n = 109), dermoglandular rotation (n = 29), and tumor-adapted reduction mammoplasty (n = 11).

Intraoperative boost radiotherapy during targeted oncoplastic breast surgery: overview and single center experiences

True juvenile hypertrophy is rare and should be treated by reduction mammoplasty after development has finished.

Benign breast conditions in young women: benign breast conditions in young women are more common than breast cancer

Nine surgical chapters detail procedures including reduction mammoplasty, lateral thoracic flaps, nipple sparing mastectomy and reconstruction, repair of the partial mastectomy defect with the latissimus dorsi flap, and staged-immediate free tissue transfer.

Oncoplastic surgery of the breast

These problems can be severe enough to inhibit females from participating in physical activity (Lorentzen and Lawson 1987, Mason et al 1999, Gehlsen and Albohm 1980) and can cause females with large breasts to seek reduction mammoplasty (Greenbaum et al 2003, BeLieu 1994, Ryan 2000, Wilson and Sellwood 1976, Maha 2000).

Education improves bra knowledge and fit, and level of breast support in adolescent female athletes: a cluster-randomised trial

ULRIKA first had a reduction mammoplasty, reducing her size from a 32E to C.

I hated my boobs for 20 years.. Now I've got the bust the of a 16-year-old; ULRIKA'S AMAZING BREAST REDUCTION: IN HER OWN WORDS

For the breast with greater ptosis and/or greater weight than that amenable to the horizontal/oblique approach, the Wise pattern RRM technique based on a reduction mammoplasty allows unparalleled access to all breast quadrants and the axillary tail, and results in cosmetically concealed scarring away from the upper and medial breast poles.