[Prevention and treatment of postburn deformations of the breasts].

Twenty six girls with deep burns of the anterior and lateral surface of the chest were treated in Gorky Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedy. The obserrvations indicated that an early closure of burn wounds in this region with adequate skin grafts could prevent gross deformity of mammary glands. Moreover, 70 females with deformation of mammary glands were under observations. In 16 of them operative procedures were undertaken for isolated lesions of 22 mammary glands. Various methods of skin plasty were employed: local, free, combined. Good and satisfactory results were gained. In 54 female patients deformities in the region of 68 mammary glands were eliminated simultaneously during surgical procedures for cicatricial contractures of the brachial joint, coxa and neck. The results obtained are described.