Bilateral Lumbar Hip Dermal Fat Rotation Flaps: A Novel Technique for Autologous Augmentation Gluteoplasty

摘要

We read with interest the article by RaposoAmaral et al. entitled "Bilateral Lumbar Hip Dermal Fat Rotation Flaps: A Novel Technique for Autologous Augmentation Gluteoplasty" (Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 117: 1781, 2006). The authors describe an innovative use of a dermal fat flap for buttock augmentation. We agree with the authors that buttock implants have been described with various rates of complications and difficulties,1 thereby hindering wide acceptance, and that lipografting is an effective means of moderately increasing buttock volume but does not directly address ptosis.2 This makes a local dermal fat flap a good option. The ideal flap, in our opinion, should be versatile, not vascularly compromised, and give the maximum projection at the midlevel of the buttocks