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History does not record when the first breast surgery was performed, but common logic suggests the operation was drainage of a breast abscess, probably using a sharp piece of bone. It only follows that some inventive, creative thinker would later use some sharp object to excise a necrotic bit of tissue.
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Biggs, T.M. (2016). History of Aesthetic Breast Surgery. In: Scuderi, N., Toth, B. (eds) International Textbook of Aesthetic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46599-8_10
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