Resumo

BORBON MENDOZA, Jesús; BEATO CANFUX, Abraham  e  ALVAREZ ROSS, Argelia. Surgical treatment of gynecomastia and breast ptosis with a novel technique. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 1997, vol.26, n.2, pp. 141-145. ISSN 1561-3046.

The gynecomastia, associated with breast ptosis has a negative adverse effect on the human psychis, resulting as a consequence important psychological disorders. Multiple surgical techniques have been assayed for its treatment, searching for a way to solve this situation with the least possible antistetic scaring. In this paper, the surgical treatment performed on a patient in whom suction lipectomy of the fatty tissue and the elimination of the gynecomastia and of the excess of skin by a different method,is reported. As a result a less visible scar and the satisfaction of the patient were obtained.

Palavras-chave : GYNECOMASTIA [surgery]; BREAST DISEASES [surgery]; LYPECTOMY [methods].