Abdominoplasty -Patient 108

A 45 yo woman is shown before and 6 weeks after an abdominoplasty. Her case was made more difficult by having had liposuction of her stomach 10 years previously by a non-plastic surgeon. This did not properly address the looseness of skin and muscle following her babies. She felt that this had made the appearance of her abdomen worse. She had a bulge of fat in her mid abdomen following the liposuction but the majority of the irregular “cellulite” appearance following the liposuction was in her lower abdomen and was able to be corrected with her abdominoplasty, which tightened the skin and muscles which had been loosened by her pregnancies. The fat bulge was also corrected at the same time. This is fairly typical of cases that I see where the diagnosis of loose skin and loose abdominal muscles from pregnancy was not properly made before her initial surgery. The scar from her abdominoplasty is covered by her underwear. The scar around her umbilicus is at its most noticeable at this, her 6 week visit. These scars typically fade over the next 2 years.