Abstract
Charles E. Hughes III, MD, Indianapolis, IN , is a board-certified plastic surgeon and an ASAPS member. Finesse in body sculpting is achieved not only by addressing the patient's primary area of concern but also by making proper adjustments to the surrounding anatomical regions. When abdominal lipoplasty is being performed, the lower supracostal area should be treated in a similar fashion. In abdominoplasty or abdominal lipoplasty, failure to address the mons pubis area may leave the patient with an undesirable contour. Both male and female patients can suffer from excess adipose tissue in the suprapubic area. Patients occasionally present with a prominent suprapubic area as their main concern. Often, however, it is unsuspected and hiding beneath the abdominal wall excess. In 1939, Thorek1 suggested using …
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