METHOD FOR PREVENTION OF RECURRENT BREAST PTOSIS Russian patent published in 2025 - IPC A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to surgery, namely to plastic surgery. Wise preoperative pattern lines are applied; skin incisions are made along the scribing lines; a nipple-areolar complex is cut out on a lower pedicle, and the excess breast tissue is resected or excess skin is removed. That is followed by a cranial dissection of tissues in the retromammary space to the level of the second rib, and an upper triangular tissue flap is formed as shown in Fig. 3, after which performing the greater pectoral muscle horizontal dissection at the level of the second rib from the parasternal line in the medial direction to the anterior axillary line in the lateral direction. Further, a retromuscular pocket is formed in the caudal direction to the level of the fifth rib, and the formed upper triangular tissue flap is placed inside the retromuscular pocket and fixed at the edges of the incision of the greater pectoral muscle. Further, the nipple and areola are fixed in the place pre-operatively marked, then the mammary gland is sutured in layers.

EFFECT: method allows improving stability of mammary glands shape and filling of upper pole of mammary glands after reduction mammoplasty or mastopexy.

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