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Swanson E. Photometric Evaluation of Inframammary Crease Level After Cosmetic Breast Surgery. Aesthet Surg J. 2010;30(6):832-837. Original DOI: 10.1177/1090820X10386943. In the article entitled "Photometric Evaluation of Inframammary Crease Level After Cosmetic Breast Surgery," published in the November/December 2010 issue, the last sentence of the abstract included the added notation "(and more static)" in describing the lower pole level of the breast as an alternative landmark to the inframammary crease. This was meant to indicate contrast to the "dynamic" movement of the inframammary crease, but this statement may have mislead readers. In fact, the lower pole level (defined as the level of the most inferior point on the breast) is not static, but reliably moves upward after breast reduction and mastopexy. A second error appears in the first paragraph of the manuscript. The inframammary crease (not the lower pole of the breast) is often hidden in photographs and is therefore less useful as a reference.