Recently, reduction mammaplasty is increasing in number among pre-marital status in Korea and number of methods were introduced and deployed by plastic surgeons.
To find the most adequate and suitable methods for the Korean woman, we undertaken post-operative evaluation of 15 patients who had had reduction mammaplasty at the Department of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, SNUH and Eul-Ji General Hospital for the past 5 years; Strombeck technique 4 cases, Pitanguy technique 1 case, McKissck technique 8 cases, Inferior Pedicle technique 2 cases, respectively. Evaluation was done under the items of age distribution, motivation, operative technique, and its pros and cons, grade of satisfaction after surgery etc.
The results were as followings.
1. Age distribution of patients were in their twenties mostly after 1979, in comparison with in thirties from 1972 to 1978.
2, In the past, alleviation of symptoms associated with breast weight was principal motivation and on the contrary cosmetic improvement was their major operational goal recently.
3. Advantages and disadvantages were similar with other reports.
4. The larger the breast, patient satisfied with the operative results.
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