Augmentation mammaplasty with miniprostheses: a preliminary report / 中华医学美学美容杂志

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveTo observe if augmentation mammaplasty with m in iprostheses can induce the length of incision and incidence of the capsular cont racture and silicone leakage in order to optimize the mammaplasty for micromasti a. Methods The study proposed a new augmentation mammaplasty w ith miniprostheses, which were a series of 10 ml siliconegel prostheses(minipros theses). The surgery was similar to the conventional augmentation mammaplasty. T he every miniprosthesis was inserted one by one beneath the pectoral muscle unti l the desired volume was achieved and defined very objectively during the surger y. The incision used was never more than 3 cm, and located in any of the sites a lready described in the literature. ResultsThe authors had per formed 5 cases of small breast. Follow-up duration ranged from 3 months to 6 y ears. The results were satisfictary. ConclusionsThere are some advantages of augmentation mammaplasty with miniprostheses, such as smaller inc isions, intraoperative assessment of the ideal size of the breast, low incidence of capsular contracture, facility in the handling of the technique, safety conc erning perforation of the implant and use for augmentation mammaplasty, and tot al and especially partial breast reconstruction.