TY  - JOUR
T1  - A plastic operation on the breast
AU  - MAY H
Y1  - 1939/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200070116008
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 113
EP  - 117
VL  - 38
IS  - 1
N2  - 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
SN  - 0272-5533
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200070116008
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200070116008
ER  -