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Did you receive any funding to support your research for this TOPIC?
No

Were you provided with any honoraria, payment or other compensation for your work on this study?
No

Do you have any financial relationship with any entity which may closely compete with the medications, materials or instruments covered by your study?
No

Do you own or have you applied for any patents in conjunction with the instruments, medications or materials discussed in your study?
No

This work was not supported by any direct or non direct funding. It is under the author's own responsability

Disclosures

Did you receive any funding to support your research for this TOPIC?
No

Were you provided with any honoraria, payment or other compensation for your work on this study?
No

Do you have any financial relationship with any entity which may closely compete with the medications, materials or instruments covered by your study?
No

Do you own or have you applied for any patents in conjunction with the instruments, medications or materials discussed in your study?
No

This work was not supported by any direct or non direct funding. It is under the author's own responsability

Objectives: This study is meant to describe the new philosophy brought to mammaplasties with the Moufarrege Total Posterior Pedicle which goes beyond what has been presented until these days.

Introduction: Until recently, the only role of the nipple-areola pedicle was to maintain the nipple-areola complex alive; little has been invested as concern among authors to ensure other functions for the nipple's pedicule.
The Moufarrege Total Posterior pedicle takes care of this missing character.

Materials / method: In the domain of reduction or lifting mammaplasty, an essential and anavoidable element
is required for a succesfull surgery: The nipple-areola complex pedicle.
For a long time, this pedicle used to serve only as as a tool to preserve the viability
of the nipple and the areola. This was its sole purpose; and until now, all
traditional mammaplasty techniques stick to this basic function without claiming
any advantage or any goal beyond it.
This role showed a tendency to evolve in the early 1970s with the upcoming of
the inferior pedicles promoted by Mc kissock (1971), followed by Robbin

Results: Since 1979, Moufarrege created his Total Posterior Pedicle using all the remaining
gland as Pedicle for the nipple-areola complex: With this, the functional pedicle
was born.

Conclusion: Conclusion : The Moufarrege Total Posterior Pedicle, the only known functional nipple-areola complex pedicle
There is no other mammaplasty technique in literature that allows to preserve all the previously mentioned functions except the Moufarrege Total Posterior Pedicle : security of the nipple-areolar complex, preservation of breastfeeding function, preservation of erogenous sensation of the nipple, protection against cancer in a 64% proportion in patients over 35 years old. All these advantages make the Total Posterior Pedicle a FUNCTIONAL PEDICLE.

Disclosures

Did you receive any funding to support your research for this TOPIC?
No

Were you provided with any honoraria, payment or other compensation for your work on this study?
No

Do you have any financial relationship with any entity which may closely compete with the medications, materials or instruments covered by your study?
No

Do you own or have you applied for any patents in conjunction with the instruments, medications or materials discussed in your study?
No

This work was not supported by any direct or non direct funding. It is under the author's own responsability

Disclosures

Did you receive any funding to support your research for this TOPIC?
No

Were you provided with any honoraria, payment or other compensation for your work on this study?
No

Do you have any financial relationship with any entity which may closely compete with the medications, materials or instruments covered by your study?
No

Do you own or have you applied for any patents in conjunction with the instruments, medications or materials discussed in your study?
No

This work was not supported by any direct or non direct funding. It is under the author's own responsability