mastopexy
Sign in to saveMastopexy (Greek μαστός mastos "breast" + -pēxiā "affix") is the plastic surgery mammoplasty procedure for raising sagging breasts upon the chest of the woman, by changing and modifying the size, contour, and elevation of the breasts. In a breast-lift surgery to re-establish an aesthetically proportionate bust for the woman, the critical corrective consideration is the tissue viability of the nipple-areola complex (NAC), to ensure the functional sensitivity of the breasts for lactation and breast-feeding.
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- Medical intervention.name
- Mastopexy
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- The patient
- Breast ptosis
- Surgical anatomy of the breast
- Composition
- Blood supply and innervation
- Mechanical structures of the breast
- Surgical procedures
- Mastopexy of the sagging breast
- Mastopexy of the augmented breast
- Contraindications
- Surgical techniques
- General
- Evaluating severity
- Repairing false ptosis
- Mastopexy procedures
- Mastopexy with medial pedicle flap
- Mastopexy with B-pedicle
- Mastopexy technique observations
- See also
- References
Mastopexy (Greek μαστός mastos "breast" + -pēxiā "affix") is the plastic surgery mammoplasty procedure for raising sagging breasts upon the chest of the woman, by changing and modifying the size, contour, and elevation of the breasts. In a breast-lift surgery to re-establish an aesthetically proportionate bust for the woman, the critical corrective consideration is the tissue viability of the nipple-areola complex (NAC), to ensure the functional sensitivity of the breasts for lactation and breast-feeding.
The breast-lift correction of a sagging bust is a surgical operation that cuts and removes excess tissues (glandular, adipose, skin), overstretched suspensory ligaments, excess skin from the skin-envelope, and transposes the nipple-areola complex higher upon the breast hemisphere. In surgical practice, mastopexy can be performed as a discrete breast-lift procedure, and as a subordinate surgery within a combined mastopexy–breast augmentation procedure.