Omar Ahmed Arafa

Breast Autoaugmentation Following Massive Weight Loss / التكبير الذاتى للثدى بعد فقدان الوزن الكبير Omar Ahmed Arafa ; Supervised Mohamed Kadry Mohamed Kadry Mostafa , Fathy Khodeir , Sameh Abdelaziz Elnoamani - Cairo : Omar Ahmed Arafa , 2013 - 119 P. : facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery

An essential part of aesthetic surgery is an understanding of the aesthetic ideals of the body. These are the guidelines which allow for interpretation, manipulation and modification in order to create or recreate a determined aesthetic outcome. Breast deformities in postbariatric surgery patients are different and more challenging than those from non-bariatric surgery patients. The histological alterations confer the highest clinical consequences to this area: highest degree of true ptosis, deflated and flattened glands, and totally inelastic covering tissues Ptosis and volume loss are the main problems to be corrected on massive-weight-loss breasts. Both problems need specific resolutions due to their specific characteristics



Bariatric surgery Breast Autoaugmentation Massive Weight Loss