ORIGINAL ARTICLE Autologous Fat Transplantation to the Breast: A Personal Technique with 25 Years of Experience

Background Over the last 30 years there has been interest in the use of autologous fat transplantation for breast reconstructive and cosmetic purposes. Up until now injec-tion of adipose tissue into the breast has been subject to two limiting factors. First, fat injection into the breast could result in fat necrosis, cyst formation, and indurations that could be mistaken as cancerous calcifications. Second, the degree of reabsorption of the injected adipose tissue is unpredictable. Methods Patients included in the study were candidates for either breast reconstruction after tumor resection or breast augmentation and were divided into three groups. Group I included patients with asymmetry after mastec-tomy and breast reconstruction; Group II consisted of patients with congenital breast asymmetry; and Group II