It is not uncmmon for patients to have undergone liposuction in the past and who now present with a deformity. This can be caused from the patient having had liposuction performed too agressively in one region or area of the body, or the patient my have had significant flucutations in weight following liposcution.
The patient in the above photograph had aggressive liposuction of the abdomen in the past which caused a rippling deformity of the abdomen. There was also significant relative protrusion of the umbilicus relative to the srurrounding fat. This rippling deformity can be very distressing to patients when they want to wear summer clothes. The deformity was corrected with a modified abdomioplasty, plication of the rectus, shortening of the umbical stalk and fat grafting to the remaining areas that were deficient in fat contour.
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