title: Treatment of impending nipple necrosis following reduction mammaplasty.
abstract: Despite careful preoperative planning and accurate surgery, nipple necrosis may follow reduction mammaplasty. Impending nipple necrosis developed following translocation of the nipple and areola on a dermal pedicle in two patients. An excellent result was obtained by converting the nipple-areola complex to a full-thickness graft and removing the avascular portion of the breast. We recommend this technique to the surgeon whose patients develop impending nipple necrosis after reduction mammaplasty.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis; D009558:Nipples / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000009:adverse effects*