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.
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.
"Surgical
reduction mammoplasty has been shown to reduce the incidence of breast cancer, and has even been suggested as a prophylactic procedure.
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.
Crikelair and Malton [4] published the first reported case of occult carcinoma discovered during
reduction mammoplasty in 1959.
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).
True juvenile hypertrophy is rare and should be treated by
reduction mammoplasty after development has finished.
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.
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).
ULRIKA first had a
reduction mammoplasty, reducing her size from a 32E to C.
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.