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Cosmetic Surgery of the Breast

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  1. See Breast Deformities and Their Repair, Chapter 1. In this same book, Maliniak says that in ancient China the feet had greater sexual appeal than the breasts, and this opinion was shared much later on by Napoleon.

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  2. See: Gli Ornamenti delle Donne, published in Venice in 1562, a real treatise on female cosmetic medicine, with a second edition in 1574. The second part is entirely devoted to the beauty of the hair and how to preserve and fortify it.

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  3. See Anthropomorphis, Chapter 19.

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  4. See Cours d’opération de Chirurgie, published in Brussels in 1708 and reprinted in Paris in 1740. In this, Dionis also describes nose reconstruction using a modified Tagliacozzi method.

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  5. See Instituzioni Chirurgiche, printed in Venice in 1770 and describing operations both for cancer (total mastectomy) and for benign tumours (partial resection).

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  7. Maliniak (1950), Marino (1952), O’Connor (1964) and Goulian and McDevitt (1972) were a few of those who used de-epithelialized flaps.

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(2007). Cosmetic Surgery of the Breast. In: A History of Plastic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46241-5_15

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