title: Chest lifting.
abstract: The male chest has a female appearance in patients with gynecomastia and those who have experienced a huge weight loss. The disadvantages of reduction mammaplasty for men are the visible scars on the chest wall necessitated because of skin redundancy. The aims of the chest-lifting procedure are to reposition the breast, to create a male appearance by thinning the amount of glandular and fatty tissue, to avoid noticeable scars on the chest wall, and to hide the scar in the middle axillar line.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Klinikum Starnberg, Germany. finckenstein@I-dial.de
authors.forename: J Graf V
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Finckenstein
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006177:Gynecomastia / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016462:Mammaplasty; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures; D015431:Weight Loss