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BACKGROUND. Liposuction is the most commonly performed cosmetic surgical procedure in the United States. Traditional liposuction (TL) performed under general anesthesia has been associated with reports of major systemic complications, including death. When TL is performed using only tumescent anesthesia, there have been no reported deaths and few significant systemic complications. Power liposuction (PL), a newer procedure in which a reciprocating cannula is used to evacuate fat, has reported benefits over TL. OBJECTIVE. To determine the complication rate associated with PL and to compare it with TL (regardless of the type of anesthesia). METHODS. In this study, 207 consecutive PL cases performed with tumescent anesthesia between August 2000 and May 2002 by a dermatologic surgeon (B.K.) and a plastic surgeon (M.B.

Who reads Power Liposuction: A Report on Complications?

Author

Bruce E. Katz; Michael C. Bruck; Lauren Felsenfeld; Kathryn E. Frew

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer Health; Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health); Elsevier BV (ISSN 1076-0512)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)