Body Sculpting by Lipoplasty

The beauty of the silhouette; historical background - open dissection, closed dissection; fundamental bases - confirmed hypotheses, the fat cells and their metabolism, the anatomy of subcutaneous fat, the surgery of fat, LFDs, or "reserve fat", clinical and surgical conclusions; principles of the technique; patient evaluation and indications - patient/surgeon communication; the instruments - the cannulae, the pumps, tubing, adaptors, collecting bottles, other instruments; preoperative requirements - completing the medical record, anesthesia, positioning the patient, the wet technique; operative technique - general technique, operative controls, refining the results, closure and the dressing, the dressing; postoperative course - usual postoperative course, surgical complications; unsatisfactory results - description of the sequelae, causes of complications and pitfalls, prevention - how to avoid problems, treatment of the complications; adiposuction according to localization - the female pelvis, the other regions of the body in women, adipsuction in men; the face - the fundamental principles, materials and methods; adipsuction alone; combined procedures - choosing the procedure (with the collaboration of J.C.Dardour, Paris), abdominoplasty, the thighs and the buttocks, combined procedures in the arms (with the collaboration of J.C.Dardour, Paris), the breasts, extensions to plastic surgery; extensions of the technique; perspectives - lymphedema, the reinjection and transposition of aspirated fat. Appendices: A - coined vocabulary; B - the mobilization of lipids in human adipose tissue - adrenergic control and variations according to location; C - glucose transport in rat and human adipose tissue; D - abstracts from the ASPRS.