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New uses of mammary ultrasonography

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This article reports the experience acquired through the use of ultrasonography applied to the study of the mammary gland affected by augmentation of reduction mammaplasty. Thirty-eight patients who had undergone either augmentation or reduction mammaplasty were submitted to ultrasonographic examination. Such a technique, besides being easy to perform, noninvasive, specific, and well accepted by the patients, showed to be remarkably interesting. It offered a wide display of the mammary parenchyma, showing its possible alterations, and supplying useful information on any possible postoperative implant ruptures, cicatricial reactions, seromas, and any other possible alterations that occurred.

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    Elio Caccialanza M.D., Patrizia Magnani M.D., Alberto Segalini M.D. & Mario Canepari M.D.

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Caccialanza, E., Magnani, P., Segalini, A. et al. New uses of mammary ultrasonography. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 18, 189–193 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00454481

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