9804-1103 Fodor
Fodor PB, Watson J.
Personal experience with ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty: a pilot study comparing
ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty with traditional lipoplasty.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1998 Apr;101(4):1103-16; discussion 1117-9. PMID: 9514348
Comment in:
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2004 May;113(6):1852-4.
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of California,
Los Angeles School of Medicine, USA.
Body contouring with traditional suction-assisted lipoplasty is currently the
most commonly performed aesthetic surgical procedure. In competent hands,
traditional lipoplasty has a low complication rate, a short recovery period, and
a high patient satisfaction rate. Body contouring with ultrasound-assisted
lipoplasty has recently gained considerable attention, and its proponents have
claimed many benefits over the traditional method. This pilot study consists of
one surgeon's clinical experience with ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty in 100
cases. In 63 of these patients, ipsilateral traditional lipoplasty and
contralateral ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty were done on one or more body
areas. These patients were blinded in the study. Complication rates, lipocrits
from the aspirate, postoperative ecchymosis, postoperative swelling, patient
satisfaction, and surgeon satisfaction were then compared for each patient
studied. Ten randomly selected patients were also evaluated by an independent
panel of reviewers who compared ecchymosis and swelling in ultrasound-assisted
versus traditional lipoplasty-treated areas. Their observations in this subset
of 10 patients were subjected to statistical analysis. This initial pilot study
failed to prove most of the benefits attributed to ultrasound-assisted
lipoplasty by other surgeons. However, the method is an evolving technology, and
the authors remain optimistic about the role of ultrasound in body sculpting
surgery.
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