TY - BOOK AU - Omar Ahmed Arafa AU - Fathy Khodeir , AU - Mohamed Kadry Mohamed Kadry Mostafa , AU - Sameh Abdelaziz Elnoamani , TI - Breast Autoaugmentation Following Massive Weight Loss / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Omar Ahmed Arafa , KW - Bariatric surgery KW - Breast Autoaugmentation KW - Massive Weight Loss N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -