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autologous fat transplantation
Indications:
- cosmetic augmentation of hands
Procedure:
autologous fat transplantation
- fat harvested form medial knee, hip or outer thigh centrifuge for 3 minutes at 3600 RPM supranatant & infranatant decanted fat is rapidly frozen to -40 degrees C or implanted into hand
Frozen fat gives better results than freshly implanted fat
General
autologous tissue transplantation
References
- Butterwick KJ et al,
Fat transplantation using fresh versus frozen fat: A side by
side t-hand comparison study.
Dermatol Surg 2006; 32:640
PMID: 16706758