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. 2022 Oct;46(5):2342-2347.
doi: 10.1007/s00266-022-02823-9. Epub 2022 Mar 28.

Male Lower Extremity Sculpting

Cristiano Monarca  1 , Marco Alessi  2 , Maria Ida Rizzo  1
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Male Lower Extremity Sculpting

Cristiano Monarca et al. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Background: The muscular sculpture (MS) is a new technique of male body contouring to achieve: tight skin that very well reveals muscular bulk, a male muscular and athletic body, minimal observable scars and even patients who are not, nor have been in. With this study, we describe the new technique for sculpting of lower extremities. In literature are not described techniques to accomplish a sound aesthetic result in sculpting surgery about lower extremities.

Methods: For this surgical procedure, we illustrate the technique that was obtained from 5 male patients (principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki have been followed). We describe this surgery with six steps: defatting step; MS; internal scar removal; irregularity removal; dermal grasping; last residues of fat removing.

Results: We obtain a high satisfaction rate as high as 100% for short and long term. Compared to the complications more described in literature (infection, hematoma, seroma, wound dehiscence, hypertrophic scars, sensory nerve injury and recurrent skin laxity, Monarca and Rizzo in Aesthetic Plast Surg 39(2):199-202, 2015), we have not had complications. We had no major complications. We observed, with our other studies, a direct relationship between complications and smoking habit. Successful body-contouring surgery requires a patient to embrace positive lifestyle habits: exercise, a proper diet and other positive lifestyle changes (Monarca et al. in Plast Reconstr Surg 123(5):1637-1638, 2009), and a high compliance and to avoid all the excesses.

Conclusions: We obtain amazing aesthetic results with total patient satisfaction without complications. There are not enough studies in the literature about body sculpting, and is necessary to deepen this technique in order to obtain increasingly encouraging results.

Level of evidence v: Sculpting surgery, Body contouring, 41 leg surgery, adipose tissue. This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Keywords: Body contouring; Liposuction; Lower limb surgery; Muscular sculpture.

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