Mammoplasty with an L-shaped limited scar and retropectoral dermopexy.

Abstract

In mammoplasty the goal of the surgeon is giving the breast new form and volume and good, durable shape with minimal scarring. This article presents a simple technique of reduction mammoplasty that avoids incisions in the so-called hypertrophic areas of the chest, the medial and the lateral extremities of the submammary fold. The technique is based on nipple transposition on a superior semicircular flap in the new predetermined side, supra-areolar dermopexy. The skin of the inferior pole of the breast is internally de-epithelized to two curvilinear incisions that end near the projection of the anterior axillary line to form an inferior dermal flap for retropectoral dermopexy. The limited residual scar is L-shaped. Ptotic and hypertrophic breasts can be treated with this method.