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Liposuction is the first cosmetic procedure to change beutification surgery from open, extensive excision surgery, into a more atraumatic closed one. It gave rise to the modern understanding of minimally scarring and minimally invasive surgery and changed the preferences of both patients and doctors. It also became the most common procedure in cosmetic surgery world-wide, practiced by an increased number of physicians from various specialties. The techniques of fat grafting, closely bound with liposuction, have found widespread application and fat stem cells seem to be changing the future of many areas in medicine. Turning the pages, the reader will find a lot of information about advances, tips and tricks, as well as important milestones in the development of the different methods available, among which classic, power, ultrasound, laser and radio-frequency assisted liposuction. The most useful anesthesia techniques are described and discussed, and guidelines have been established for medical indications. Special attention is paid to good patient selection, complications and risks.

Chapter contents:

Part 1: History and Techniques

Chapter 1 - Application of the Liposuction Techniques and Principles in Specific Body Areas and Pathologies - by Diego Schavelzon, Louis Habbema, Stefan Rapprich, Peter Lisborg , Guillermo Blugerman, Jorge A. D’Angelo, Andrea Markowsky, Javier Soto, Rodrigo Moreno and Maria Siguen

Chapter 2 - Liposuction and Fat Graft to Enhance Facial Contour in Reconstructive Surgery - Nine Years Experience with the use of Peridural Cannula - by Claudia Gutiérrez Gómez, Marcia Pérez Dosal and Alexander Cardenas Mejia

Chapter 3 - Novel Liposuction Techniques for the Treatment of HIV-Associated Dorsocervical Fat Pad and Parotid Hypertrophy - by Harvey Abrams and Karen L. Herbst

Chapter 4 - Lipoplasty of the Back - by Francisco Agullo, Sadri O. Sozer and Humberto Palladino

Chapter 5 - Power-Assisted Liposuction (PAL) vs Traditional Liposuction: Quantification and Comparison of Tissue Shrinkage and Tightening - by Gordon H. Sasaki, Ana Tevez and Erica Lopez Ulloa

Chapter 6 - Larger Infiltration/Aspiration Volumes, Plasma/ Subcutaneous Fluid Lidocaine Levels and Quantitative Abdominal Tissue Accommodation After Water-Assisted Liposuction (WAL): Comparative Safety and Efficacy to Traditional Liposuction (TL) - by Gordon H. Sasaki

Chapter 7 - Gynoid Lipodystrophy Treatment and Other Advances on Laser-Assisted Liposuction - by Alberto Goldman, Sufan Wu, Yi Sun, Diego Schavelzon and Guillermo Blugerman

Chapter 8 - Radio-Frequency Assisted Liposuction (RFAL) - by Guillermo Blugerman, Malcolm D. Paul, Diego Schavelzon, R. Stephen Mulholland, Matthias Sandhoffer, Peter Lisborg, Antonio Rusciani, Mark Divaris and Michael Kreindel

Chapter 9 - Ultrasound Assisted Liposculpture – UAL: A Simplified Safe Body Sculpturing and Aesthetic Beautification Technique - by Nikolay P. Serdev

Part 2: Lipotransfer and Stem Cell Enriched Fat Transfer

Chapter 10 - Advanced Lipotransfer Techniques - by Guillermo Blugerman, Roger Amar, Diego Schavelzon, Marco A. Pelosi II, Marco A. Pelosi III, Javier A. Soto, Anastasia Chomyszyn, Maurizio Podda, Andrea V. Markowsky, Jorge A. D’Angelo and Rodrigo Moreno

Chapter 11 - Processing of Lipoaspirate Samples for Optimal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Isolation - by Leandra Baptista, Karina Silva, Carolina Pedrosa and Radovan Borojevic

Chapter 12 - Stem Cell Enriched Fat Transfer - by Maurizio Ceccarelli and J. Víctor García

Part 3: Complications of Liposuction

Chapter 13 - Complications of Liposuction - by Francisco J. Agullo, Humberto Palladino and Sadri O. Sozer

Edited by Nikolay Serdev, ISBN 978-953-307-668-3, 240 pages, Publisher: InTech