Comprehensive Body Contouring Theory and Practice
This up-to-date discourse on body contouring surgery is based on the experience of a plastic surgeon who is renowned as an innovator and repeatedly reports excellent results. Patient selection, preparation, surgical procedures, and aftercare are presented
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Comprehensive Body Contouring
Dennis Hurwitz
Comprehensive Body Contouring Theory and Practice
Dennis Hurwitz University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA USA
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Preface
Three years since after signing an agreement with Springer-Verlag to write my complete approach to body contouring surgery, I turned in this manuscript. I completely revised it several times and had to wait many months for the final revised drawings from our brilliant Brazilian artist, Luiz Goncalves. We believe it was worth the wait, because now we present a timely and readable experiential window to this new discipline of plastic surgery. Part of the problem was, like all practicing plastic surgeons, I am a parttime writer with substantial clinical and academic responsibilities. Accumulating cases and writing after hours can be exhausting and as such not always productive. From the beginning, I began this book with aesthetic and technical basics and then followed on procedure specifics exemplified in clinical teaching cases. At first, I fell into the trap of organizing the second part of the book by region such as the lower body and thigh and by structure such as the breast. That is the traditional way that a plastic surgeon thinks and that is how these aesthetic challenges tend to be taught at meetings. As the challenges of gender dysmorphia and their solutions became more apparent, a reorganization to a chapter on women followed by one on men was
