[Restoration of shape, position and skin of burn-damaged breasts].
Experience in the treatment of 24 females with restoration of 29 breasts which had been damaged by burns is discussed. In 16 of them the breast lay flat under scars. An effective method for restoring the shape and position of the breast in suggested. It consists in radical excision of the scars covering the glandular tissue, application of multilayer subcapsular circular retention sutures for 3 months, and restoration of the skin over the breast with a split-skin graft or healthy skin taken from an adjacent area and stretched with an extender. Good cosmetic results were obtained in all cases, stable restoration of the shape, position, and skin over the breasts distorted by scars was achieved.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001940:Breast / Q000293:injuries*; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016038:Skin Transplantation
Vosstanovlenie formy, polozheniia i kozhnogo pokrova molochnykh zhelez, povrezhdennykh ozhogom.