9707-220 Adamo
Adamo C, Mazzocchi M, Rossi A, Scuderi N.
Ultrasonic liposculpturing: extrapolations from the analysis of in vivo sonicated adipose tissue.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1997 Jul;100(1):220-6. PMID: 9207679
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Reggio Calabria,
Italy.
The ultrasonic liposculpturing technique is currently gaining increasing
popularity. Although ultrasound is an accepted part of our diagnostic medical
practice, the way in which it interacts with solid living tissue is still a
complex and unsolved biophysical problem. Very few studies, if any, have
followed the effects of diffusion of this intriguing technique on the fields of
biosafety and interaction mechanisms. We evaluate the results of our standard
ultrasound liposculpturing technique in order to recognize the physical
mechanism-thermal, cavitational, or "direct"-involved in the damaging process.
Our microscopic analysis of sonicated adipose tissue confirms that ultrasound is
highly selective in its action, producing disruption of macromolecules and
cellular structures probably through microstreaming tissue movement. The results
of ultrasonic liposculpturing and standard suction lipoplasty are compared. The
main advantages of this new technique are the possibility of a very selective
destruction of adipose tissue and the prospective solution to such delicate
problems as the irregularity of cellulite.
|
