Mastopexy: modification of periwinkle shell operation. Ten years of experience.
Degrees I and II ptosis and atrophy of the female breast can definitively be corrected by the modified periwinkle shell operation. More problematic are the long-term results after correction of a degree III condition, especially when silastic prostheses for augmentation have been used. The long-term results can be optimized by a combination of dermal and glandular mastopexy and mammary implants.
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Service de chirurgie plastique et reconstructive, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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D000328:Adult; D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*