Gigantomasty: Treatment with a short vertical scar

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-47

  Heine, N ^a   Eisenmann Klein, M ^a   Prantl, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gigantomasty; Reduction mammaplasty; Vertical scar

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST REDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SCAR; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; CICATRIX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37849020689     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-007-9005-x     Document Type: Article

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