ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2026
Combination of Autologous Costal Cartilage Harvest for Rhinoplasty and Breast Augmentation Through the Same Incision: Experience in a Vietnam Population and Outcomes.
Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionConcomitant rhinoplasty and breast augmentation are not rare these days because of high aesthetic demands. Costal cartilage harvested through breast surgery incision could be a convenient choice for rhinoplasty, which possibly prevents scarring from multiple incisions. A modified procedure of costal cartilage harvested using simple surgical tools for the concurrence of rhinoplasty and breast augmentation was applied in our hospital. This study aims to share our experience with this approach and its efficacy and safety profile.
methodsThis is a retrospective cohort study that collected data on healthy patients who underwent breast augmentation and rhinoplasty simultaneously using autologous costal cartilage from January 2019 to January 2024. Varied incisions, including inframammary fold, peri-areolar incision, or trans-areolar incision, were conducted to harvest costal cartilage for rhinoplasty. Data relating to patients, surgery, aesthetic assessments, and postoperative complications were retrieved.
resultsA total of 114 female patients (31.4 ± 0.65 years) were included in this study. IMF incision approach made up the majority. Time for costal cartilage harvest was about 15 min, and total surgical time was 290-370 min (312.6 ± 1.71 min). Four cases (3.5%) developed keloids postoperatively. Three cases (2.63%) required revision surgery due to postoperative nasal deformity. No complication of pneumothorax, pericardial rupture, hematoma, or infection occurred postoperatively.
conclusionsA low rate of complications and acceptable scarring suggested that the combination procedure applied simple tools for cartilage harvest, which was relatively safe to apply for patients who desired to perform these procedures at the same time. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
Indexed as
Identifiers
42329439What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.