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Aesthetic breast surgery is continuously on the rise1 and the request for combination procedures continues to increase placing more demand on plastic surgeons. Patients who have undergone significant weight loss and mothers who are done having children continue to seek body contouring procedures. Depending on the patient and their clinical presentation, some of these procedures can be complex and lengthy. The authors of this article have described the first prospective evidence in the literature of the risk of concomitant procedures (ie, breast procedure with an abdominal procedure) using a large, prospective multicenter database (CosmetAssure, Birmingham, AL).2 When evaluating the paper and reading the results one must keep in mind that the complications reported in the article are occurrences within the first 30 days of the operation that required a return to the hospital for either admission or reoperation. The minor complications (wound healing issues, seromas, etc.) are not included in the data as those are not reported to the insurance companies’ data base.

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