| Abstrakt: |
Body contouring with traditional suctionassisted lipoplasty is currently the most commonly performed aesthetic surgical procedure. In competent hands, traditional lipoplasty has a low complication rate, a short recovery period, and a high patient satisfaction rate. Body contouring with ultrasoundassisted lipoplasty has recently gained considerable attention, and its proponents have claimed many benefits over the traditional method. This pilot study consists of one surgeon’s clinical experience with ultrasoundassisted lipoplasty in 100 cases. In 63 of these patients, ipsilateral traditional lipoplasty and contralateral ultrasoundassisted lipoplasty were done on one or more body areas. These patients were blinded in the study. Complication rates, lipocrits from the aspirate, postoperative ecchymosis, postoperative swelling, patient satisfaction, and surgeon satisfaction were then compared for each patient studied. Ten randomly selected patients were also evaluated by an independent panel of reviewers who compared ecchymosis and swelling in ultrasoundassisted versus traditional lipoplastytreated areas. Their observations in this subset of 10 patients were subjected to statistical analysis. |
