title: "L" technique compared with others in mammaplasty reduction.
abstract: With more than 20 years' experience with using my L method in reduction mammaplasty, I realize that very little has changed in my philosophy. With the L technique one can achieve a perfect shape with a minimal scar and avoid a medial scar toward the sternum. I use only the lower access with upper vascular protection, abandoning the inferior vascular base of the flap. This procedure has new competition including techniques that yield a simple vertical scar or only a periareolar scar. However, up to now it is not possible, with any technique, to achieve a satisfactory shape for exigent patients. When I explain to potential patients the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods, in most cases they choose the L technique.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Chirurgie Plastique, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013518:Surgery, Plastic