Abstract Twenty years after my first paper on abdominoplasty, I find that the classification of abdominoplasty remains the same, but
new operative techniques allow for accentuated improvement of the results through more liposuction, less undermining in tunnels,
and reduction of skin traction. I use the same classification of diagnoses proposed in 1988, dividing the aesthetic alterations
into five groups, and describe my experience during a 6-year period with 502 patients. I used vibroliposuction and performed
plicature of the muscular aponeurosis through tunnels (where there are no important muscular perforator vessels), without
damaging the vascularization. I propose an appropriate ratio of 1/1.5 between infra- and supraumbilical segments for uses
in diagnosis and treatme…
Source: MedWorm: Liposuction
Abstract Twenty years after my first paper on abdominoplasty, I find that the classification of abdominoplasty remains the same, but
new operative techniques allow for accentuated improvement of the results through more liposuction, less undermining in tunnels,
and reduction of skin traction. I use the same classification of diagnoses proposed in 1988, dividing the aesthetic alterations
into five groups, and describe my experience during a 6-year period with 502 patients. I used vibroliposuction and performed
plicature of the muscular aponeurosis through tunnels (where there are no important muscular perforator vessels), without
damaging the vascularization. I propose an appropriate ratio of 1/1.5 between infra- and supraumbilical segments for uses
in diagnosis and treatme…
Source: MedWorm: Liposuction
Abstract Twenty years after my first paper on abdominoplasty, I find that the classification of abdominoplasty remains the same, but
new operative techniques allow for accentuated improvement of the results through more liposuction, less undermining in tunnels,
and reduction of skin traction. I use the same classification of diagnoses proposed in 1988, dividing the aesthetic alterations
into five groups, and describe my experience during a 6-year period with 502 patients. I used vibroliposuction and performed
plicature of the muscular aponeurosis through tunnels (where there are no important muscular perforator vessels), without
damaging the vascularization. I propose an appropriate ratio of 1/1.5 between infra- and supraumbilical segments for uses
in diagnosis and treatme…
Source: MedWorm: Liposuction
