The favorable psychological approach of single-stage curative and prophylactic skin-reducing mastectomy in patients with macromastia

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Mar;127(3):1389-1390. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318206318f.

Authors

Livio Colizzi¹, Davide Lazzeri, Tommaso Agostini, Matteo Ghilli, Manuela Roncella, Marcello Pantaloni

Affiliation

¹ Breast Cancer Surgical Unit (Colizzi, Ghilli, Roncella) Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Burn Center Units (Lazzeri) Burn Center Unit (Agostini) Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Burn Center Units, Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Pantaloni).

PMID: 21364445
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318206318f

No abstract available

Publication types

Comment
Letter

MeSH terms

Breast / abnormalities
Breast / surgery
Female
Humans
Hypertrophy / psychology
Hypertrophy / surgery
Mammaplasty / methods
Mammaplasty / psychology*
Mastectomy / methods
Mastectomy / psychology*
Patient Satisfaction*
Surgical Flaps*

Supplementary concepts

Gigantomastia