Phosphatidylcholine and sodium deoxycholate in the treatment of localized fat: A double-blind, randomized study

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-66

  Salti, Giovanni ^a   Ghersetich, Ilaria ^b   Tantussi, Franca ^c   Bovani, Bruno ^c   Lotti, Torello ^b  

^a Centro Chirurgico Florence   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c SMES Aesthetic Medicine Institute   (San Marino)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYCHOLATE SODIUM; LIPOSTABIL; FATTY ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE PAIN; LIPODYSTROPHY; LIPOLYSIS; MALAISE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INDURATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEATORRHEA; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT DISORDER; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SWELLING; URTICARIA; ADIPOCYTE; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPOSUCTION; MORBIDITY; NOTE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES;

EID: 37349106071     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.34009.x     Document Type: Article

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