RT Journal
A1 MAY H
T1 A plastic operation on the breast
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1939
FD January 1
VO 38
IS 1
SP 113
OP 117
DO 10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200070116008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200070116008
AB Plastic operation on the breast is a recent addition to plastic surgery. This new field owes some of its demand to the importance that women of today attribute to a properly proportioned form. Vogues and sports have given rise to comparisons which make a woman conscious of having a normal or an abnormal form. Therefore, hypertrophic and pendulous breasts, which in moderate degrees are fairly common, may constitute a psychic handicap. For a small group of women with enormously heavy breasts, there is added to the psychic handicap a physical one, and the two may constitute a tragedy of life, since they frequently occur in young women with otherwise slim figures. When it is possible safely and satisfactorily to correct a deformity of the breasts and thus to restore the happiness of a patient, plastic reconstruction of the breast is a justifiable operation.Surgeons distinguish an atrophic pendulous breast from