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The author discusses what a surgeon must do before performing any surgical procedure, how to avoid complications in breast reduction/mastopexy and what wound healing depends on.
There is a description of what breast aesthetic appearance depends on as well as the possible complications of mastopexy/breast reduction that consists of infection, bleeding, hematoma, venous stasis of the nipple areolar complex (NAC), ischemia, and necrosis. Management of complications is discussed.
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Mugea, T.T., Curic, L.M., Martin, A.M. (2015). Complications of Mastopexy and Breast Reduction. In: Mugea, T.T., Shiffman, M.A. (eds) Aesthetic Surgery of the Breast. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43407-9_54
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