Safety and tolerability of high-intensity focused ultrasonography for noninvasive body sculpting: 24-week data from a randomized, sham-controlled study

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 868-876

  Jewell, Mark L ^a   Weiss, Robert A ^b   Baxter, Richard A ^c   Cox, Sue Ellen ^c   Dover, Jeffrey S ^c   Donofrio, Lisa M ^c   Glogau, Richard G ^c   Kane, Michael C ^c   Martin, Patrick ^c   Lawrence, Ira D ^c   Hlessinger, Joel ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

adipose tissue; body contouring; body sculpting; fat reduction; high intensity focused ultrasonography (HIFU); noninvasive

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCHYMOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING; SHAM PROCEDURE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; TIME FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84866153767     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090820X12455190     Document Type: Article

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