title: [Plastic surgery and obesity: why, when, how?].
abstract: In this review, we describe the main surgical procedures used in the plastic surgery of obesity: lipectomies and removal of excess fat tissues after weight loss, liposuction of localised fat deposits, surgery of breast hypertrophies. The main surgical procedures, their indications, their techniques and their long-term results are described. Such surgery should be part of a coherent and structured therapeutic project, defined together with the patient. The management and follow-up should be maintained on the long term after the initial weight loss and the surgical procedure, in order to reinforce the benefit and to prevent a weight regain.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie plastique reconstructrice et esthétique (Pr M. Mimoun), Hôpital Rothschild, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chaouat
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krempf
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery; D002081:Buttocks / Q000601:surgery; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015187:Lipectomy; D009765:Obesity / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss