Lipoabdominoplasty: revisiting the superior pull-down abdominal flap and new approaches.
Abdominoplasty is a very common procedure, especially for patients with abdominal laxness, striaes, and muscle rectus diastases. With the advent of liposuction 28 years ago, we can improve body contouring by treating lipodystrophies in the epigastric, flank, trochanteric, and buttocks areas. The procedure combining abdominoplasty and liposuction is called lipoabdominoplasty. Many new techniques have been proposed since these procedures were introduced; we now revisit the superior pull-down abdominal flap technique with several new modifications and improvements.
Uebel
Carlos Oscar
CO
Division of Plastic Surgery, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio Grande Sul - PUCRS, Rio Grande Sul, Brazil. carlos@uebel.com.br
D050153:Abdominal Fat / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015187:Lipectomy / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps