Aesthetic surgery journal
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Aesthetic surgery journal · Jan 2002
Incidence of intercostobrachial nerve injury after transaxillary breast augmentation.
Although many studies on transaxillary breast augmentation (TBA) have been published, none has examined the incidence of intercostobrachial nerve (ICBN) injury after aesthetic surgery. ⋯ TBA is associated with a high incidence of injury to the ICBN. Our findings indicate that the use of an endoscope with the transaxillary approach does not significantly affect the rate of injury to the ICBN. The dissection study performed helped to confirm that an immediately subcutaneous plane of dissection in the axilla is safest with regard to avoiding injury to the ICBN. (Aesthetic Surg J 2002;22:26-32.).