Breast reduction: Shortening scars with liposuction

Breast Reduction Using Liposuction with Tumescent Local Anesthesia and Powered Cannulas

“…In recent years, the number of publications concerning liposuction of the breast has increased, 7-15 although few detailed studies on using exclusively liposuction for breast reduction have been conducted. [7][8][9] Liposuction was initially used in conjunction with excision to improve the overall result; [16][17][18][19] although the potential complications from excision continued to be problematic. Gray 10 described results from liposuction of breasts using general anesthesia in a group of patients in which no selection was made and reported a low requirement for secondary procedures.…”

Liposuction Breast Reduction

“…There have been several previous reports combining liposuction with conventional surgery, 6 periareolar incision, 7 or short vertical scar reductions. 8,9 Unfortunately, these previous reports failed to properly use liposuction to its fullest potential and had higher complication rates more closely resembling conventional surgery. The reason for these higher complication rates is that the majority of the tissue removed is through cutting of the breast, which dis- Ultrasonic liposuction for breast reduction has been reported.…”