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A corrective surgical technique is described for a newly defined deformity: hypoplasia of the lower medial quadrant of the breast. It involves reducing the usually enlarged nipple-areola complex and reshaping the breast by turning a glandular pedicled flap from the fairly large upper two quadrants on a medial base into the underdeveloped site of the medial lower quadrant. The method proved uniformly successful in 11 cases and 17 breasts involved.
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Bruck, H.G. Hypoplasia of the lower medial quadrant of the breast. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 16, 283–286 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01570689
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01570689