Laser-Assisted Liposuction for Facial and Body Contouring and Tissue Tightening: A 2-Year Experience With 75 Consecutive Patients

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 226-235

  Sasaki, Gordon H ^a,b   Tevez, Ana ^a  

^a Sasaki Advanced Aesthetic Medical Center   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBER; HEMOGLOBIN; LIDOCAINE; METHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; BODY FAT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMIS; ENERGY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOSUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STANDARD; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL INJURY;

ADIPOCYTES; ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LIPECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549209105     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2009.10.003     Document Type: Review

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