[What's new apropos of breast prostheses?]

What is new in the field of mammary prostheses? In answer to this question, the authors reply "Nothing". They stress the need for a new approach to the problem of capsular contraction based on: 1) experimental research aiming at identification of the collagen and the capsular fibroblasts, by cell culture, in particular; 2) the abandoning of horizontal in favour of longitudinal statistics based on prolonged multifactoral observation of the largest possible number of patients; 3) greater scientific rigour in the analysis of prosthetic insertion in augmentation mammoplasties and mammary reconstructions. In this connection, they describe their own technique for augmentation mammoplasties by insertion of an inflatable prosthesis placed retropectorally by an areolo-mamillary approach.