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Reduction mammaplasty and axillary-subclavian venous thrombosis.

Wolfram D, Pülzl P, Schoeller T, Wechselberger G

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

We present a woman with distinct mammahypertrophy and simultaneous catheter-associated axillary-subclavian venous thrombosis characterized only by chronically dilated collateral vein over the chest. Despite this massively dilated subcutaneous vein covering the chest on the affected side, bilateral reduction mammaplasty of modified Pitanguy method was successfully performed among protection of this collateral vein.

Published 13 June 2006 in Am J Surg, 192(1): 98-9.
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