autologous fat transplantation

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Indications

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

More general terms

References

  1. 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: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16706758