Abstract
The main goal of this article is to demonstrate that biochemically, metabolically, histologically, embryologically, and anatomically there are two totally different types of subcutaneous fat. This fact has clinical and surgical consequences including the concept of dynamic and surface anatomy.
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Illouz YG: La sculpture chirurgicale par lipoplasite (French, edition). London: Churchill-Livingstone, 1988.
Illouz YG: Body sculpturing by lipoplasty (English, edition). London: Churchill-Livingstone, 1989
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Illouz, Y.G. Study of subcutaneous fat. Aesth. Plast. Surg. 14, 165–177 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01578345
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