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JIMENEZ REYES, Walgener; JIMENEZ REYES, William  e  RODRIGUEZ GIL, Ernesto. Reductive mastoplastyby modified Thorek technique in giant breasts. Rev. inf. cient. [online]. 2018, vol.97, n.1, pp. 183-191. ISSN 1028-9933.

Gigantomasty is a kind of mammary hypertrophy when it surpasses the 1 500 g of mammary volume in each mamma and its correction is made with the mastoplasty reductive's technique. It is presented a case of a 42-year-old patient with a diagnosis of giant breasts; was applied reductive mastoplasty by graft technique of the nipple areola complex, being an adaptation to the one described by Thorek in 1922, using the Wise mold. The gland tissue was resected 4 000 grams in each breast, total 8 000 grams, which was the main motivation of this work, in addition, to obtain the interest of doctors to study this condition for diagnosis and knowledge of this treatment. A good aesthetic result and patient satisfaction were obtained.

Palavras-chave : giant breast; reductive mastoplasty; mammary hypertrophy; Thorek's technique.

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