Reoperative Transaxillary Breast Surgery: Using the Axillary Incision to Treat Augmentation-related Complications

摘要

Background The axillary incision for breast augmentation has been an option for patients and surgeons for more than 30 years now. Controlled clinical trials have demonstrated that reoperations continue to be significant (15–24% at 3 years) independent of incision choice. The misbelief that the transaxillary approach is not adequate for reoperations inhibits patients’ and surgeons’ decisions on what incision is best in each case.