Breast augmentation: Teaching our patients how compression can help prevent capsular contracture

Authors
Camirand, A Doucet, J
Citation
A. Camirand et J. Doucet, Breast augmentation: Teaching our patients how compression can help prevent capsular contracture, AES PLAS SU, 24(3), 2000, pp. 221-226
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY
ISSN journal
0364216X → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
221 - 226
Database
ISI
SICI code
0364-216X(200005/06)24:3<221:BATOPH>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
If we insert a foreign body into a human being, physiologically, we get a c apsular contracture because a periprosthetic scar contracts to give the imp lant a spherical shape, the smallest surface area for a given volume. To an tagonize this contracture, one must stretch the periprosthetic scar and thi s can be accomplished with compression.