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A 25-year-old patient had bilateral breast augmentation. She had a moderately wide intermammary distance and thin upper pole (pinch test). Six months postoperatively she was noted to have descent that increased the following year. The discussion centered around a variety of procedures including capsulectomy or capsulotomy, closure of the inframammary fold, and the size of the implant. Revision was performed with good results.
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Higgs, M.J., Wong, CH., Topchian, D., Flynn, J., Fleming, D., Szalay, M. (2016). Case 33: Implant Descent. In: Higgs, M., Shiffman, M. (eds) Cosmetic Breast Cases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27714-1_26
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