Breast Asymmetries: A Brief Review and Our Experience

@article{Araco2006BreastAA,
  title={Breast Asymmetries: A Brief Review and Our Experience},
  author={Antonino Araco and Gianpiero Gravante and Francesco Araco and Pietro Gentile and Francesca Castr{\`i} and Daniela Delogu and Vincenzino Filingeri and Valerio Cervelli},
  journal={Aesthetic Plastic Surgery},
  year={2006},
  volume={30},
  pages={309-319}
}
The authors describe their personal experience with the management of mammary asymmetries. A review of their database from January 1998 to January 2005 identified 177 patients with idiopathic breast asymmetries. All these cases had been classified previously into six groups. Bilateral asymmetric hypertrophy and unilateral hypertrophy were treated with reduction mammaplasty. Unilateral hypertrophy with amastia or hypoplasia of the contralateral side was managed with reduction and augmentation… 
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