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Lipodorseabdominoplasty: 10 years of experience

BACKGROUND: This study presents retrospectively the author's experiences from September 1999 to June 2010, concerning lipodorseabdominoplasty, and describes tunnel surgical xifoumbilical performed and descent of the abdominal flap to the hypogastric region. This surgical procedure is associated with liposuction of fat from the abdomen and back with excision of the fat layer below the lamellar Scarpa fascia. METHODS: All procedures were performed in an University of Santa Casa de Misericordia de Goiânia and in private clinic. Were operated 606 females patients, mean age 30 years. Overweight patients and post-bariatric surgery were not included. The operated abdomens were characterized as types III and V according to the classification of Bozola and Psillakis. RESULTS: The surgical procedure of the lipodorseabdominoplasty is safe, observing the care required and there weren't serious complications such as pulmonary embolism, infection, skin necrosis, perforation of cavities or deaths. CONCLUSION: The level of excellence achieved in the results of procedures lipodorsoabdominoplastia characterizes it as a natural evolution of classical abdominoplastia.

Cosmetic techniques; Lipectomy; Abdomen


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