[Juvenile mammary hypertrophy. Early surgical treatment]

The elastic and retractile nature of young skin allows glandular reductions to be performed without skin excision for the treatment of mammary hypertrophy in very young girls. These reductions in volume prevent secondary ptosis and stretch marks and are performed via an isolated inframammary incision. The devascularisation induced blocks glandular growth and no recurrence of hypertrophy has been observed in our series of 34 cases with a mean follow-up of 16 months.