Prof. Madeleine LeJour was a professor of Plastic Surgery at the Free University of Brussels, in Belgium. Her work is based on that of a true visionary, Dr. Claude Lassus of Nice, France.
They both understood that relying just on tightening and tailoring of the breast skin in breast reduction and breast lift always gave short lasting results and frequently other complications such as Star Gazing nipples. This occurred DESPITE having to use and leave women with LONG T-shaped scars.
Instead, Lassus and Lejour beginning in the late 1970's and 1980's recommended that much better and longer lasting Breast Lift / Breast Reduction results could be obtained though a shorter lollipop scar by actually tailoring the breast tissue itself (instead of its overlying skin). These operations are collectively known as VERTICAL MAMMAPLASTY or VERTICAL SCAR TECHNIQUES.
The word PEDICLE, in Plastic surgery speak describes where the blood supply to a flap comes from and helps guide classification and design of various flaps.
The Lejour Mammaplasty technique designed and based the blood supply to the nipple complex on a SUPERIOR vertical pedicle.
The technique made popular by Dr. Elizabeth Hall-Findlay of Banff, Canada uses a MEDIAL pedicle. This allows the technique to be used in many more women.
The results of Vertical scar techniques are outstanding and vastly superior to the old, inverted T shape or Wise pattern procedures. BUT - BE CAREFUL - the lollipop scar is just that a scar. Just because you see a lollipop scar does not necessarily mean that a vertical scar breast technique was used.