Improvement in arm and post-partum abdominal and flank subcutaneous fat deposits and skin laxity using a bipolar radiofrequency, infrared, vacuum and mechanical massage device

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 791-798

  Brightman, Lori ^a   Weiss, Elliot ^a   Chapas, Anne M ^a   Karen, Julie ^a   Hale, Elizabeth ^a   Bernstein, Leonard ^a   Geronemus, Roy G ^a  

^a LASER AND SKIN SURGERY CENTER OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Body contouring; Circumferential reduction; Skin laxity; Tightening; Velashape

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; LIPID STORAGE; MASSAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARM; BACK; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; SKIN; SKIN AGING; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; VACUUM;

EID: 74549162679     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20872     Document Type: Article

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