I believe that an individualized selection of the procedures is often more important than a brilliant surgical performance. The specific indications for each procedure are therefore thoroughly discussed before entering the surgical details. The surgical techniques are illustrated by intra-operative pictures in a “step-by step” fashion. I intentionally avoided the use of drawings which can make some steps clearer but are always “artificial” and cannot truly represent the surgical field. Of course, this book does not intend to review the whole spectrum of surgical techniques. It represents a single surgeon’s view: although obviously incomplete, it reports a homogeneous strategy to plastic surgery of the breast. Pietro Berrino