Mammoplasty Using Syringe Liposuction and Periareolar Incision: An 8-Year Evolution

Abstract

In the late 1980s important innovations improved the scope of reduction mammoplasty and mastopexy. The return of the periareolar incision and the introduction of liposuction,¹ and later syringe liposculpture,² are some of the technical advances that allowed us to provide shape improvement and shorter scars. Liposuction disproved the old concept that, to change form, a long incision is necessary. In the same way we were able to change the indication for abdomen der- molipectomies, we could also apply the same principles to breast surgery. Many breast hypertrophies are caused by excess fat. It is possible today to reduce fatty breasts considerably by liposuction alone, without the need for any other incisions.