Posted On: July 10, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
As women age, the breasts may become saggier with more skin laxity, especially along the vertical and the inframammary fold regions. This may require a formal mastopexy concurrently with an augmentation mammoplasty procedure. Women in their 30s who have had children and have had weight fluctuations often present with severe ptosis, including grade 3 ptosis […]
Read MorePosted On: May 19, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
SEVERE DOW CORNING BILATERAL RUPTURED SILICONE BAKER IV CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE SILICONE CALCIFIED GRANULOMAS The patient presents to the operating room today with bilateral 510 cc Dow Corning Silicone Gel Implants placed approximately 22 years ago. The implants were completely dissolved with the shell and piecemeal calcifications and silicone calcified granulomas notable throughout the entire breast. The patient […]
Read MorePosted On: May 14, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY The patient presents with significant weight loss notable 150 pounds after Roux-En-Y gastroplasty. She now has significant grade 3 ptosis, skin laxity and will undergo augmentation mammoplasty with high profile saline implants and a formal mastopexy using inferior pedicle Wise-pattern technique. This is extraordinarily complicated surgery associated with her breast showing different […]
Read MorePosted On: May 05, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The last day of the Aesthetic Meeting in San Francisco was April 28, 2014 – hard to believe it’s already been a full week since then. I always enjoy this meeting, and, as I stated a few weeks back, I enjoy receiving the education needed to stay at the top of my craft, improve patient […]
Read MorePosted On: March 24, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient presents with very severe breast asymmetry. Her breasts are different in size and shape. Notice the left breast is larger and lower. There is more skin laxity. It was decided she would undergo high profile saline implants with two different sizes with a 465 cc high profile placed on the left and a […]
Read MorePosted On: March 07, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
REQUIRING FULL BREAST LIFT The patient is an Armenian female presenting with severe weight loss which has caused her breasts to sag quite a bit. Not only a lot of loose skin, but the left breast is significantly wider and larger than the right. The patient is now post op four weeks after surgery, her […]
Read MorePosted On: February 12, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
The patient below shows an amazing preoperative evaluation showing three dramatic problems. The first is significant breast asymmetry. Notice the right breast is significantly larger and wider than the left. This is associated with, 1) A congenital thoracic chest wall asymmetry. 2) Severe pectus excavatum centrally with a depression deformity of the inner breast. This […]
Read MorePosted On: January 17, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
This preoperative photograph shows a patient with significant asymmetry of the inframammary fold. The inframammary fold is one of the most important, if not the most important, landmarks on the breast when performing breast augmentation surgery. Notably, on this patient her right inframammary fold is significantly lower than the left and also notable is a […]
Read MorePosted On: January 06, 2014 Author: The Office of Dr. Stuart Linder
Patients do present in their teenage years for breast reduction surgery. These young women often have the same symptoms associated with bilateral breast hypertrophy, including large pendulous breasts with back pain, neck pain, grooving along the shoulder blades; however intertriginous rashes are less common. There is also the emotional difficult psychological torment of having disproportionately […]
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