What is it about?
The author reports his experience in the treatment of four patients suffering from severe lower extremity atrophy and asymmetry of different etiologies with autologous fat grafting.
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Why is it important?
The case report compares two patients treated with traditional fat grafting technique with two additional patients treated with fat grafts enriched with adipose-derived Stromal vascular fraction cells.
Perspectives
Fat grafting meets several important advantages that make it a first choice technique in lower extremity asymmetries: less aggressive, efficiency in volume improvement, and regenerative potential that benefits damaged tissues. Its main disadvantage is probably the need to perform several treatments in order to expand soft tissue coverage and overcome tissue tightness.
Dr Juan Monreal
Hospital La Luz
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This page is a summary of: Autologous Fat Grafting in Severe Lower Extremity Asymmetries: Report of Four Cases, Cureus, December 2015, Cureus, Inc.,
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.402.
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