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Body shaping

... large amounts of hanging skin. To provide improved contours on the waist, back and flanks, surgeons sometimes perform a belt lipectomy , (also known as ... on the stomach and flanks while trimming excess skin from the patient’s back and sides as well. The abdominoplasty and belt lipectomy incisions are ...

Fat transfer

... method exists among physicians for preparing donated fat before injection back into the patient. For this and other reasons, the American Society of ... the technique used to treat the fat and how the prepared fat cells are put back into the patient and the site to which the fat was moved. Doctors Summer ...

Hyperesthesia

... in cats , particularly Siamese , Burmese , Himalayan , and Abyssinian cats. References "What could cause a cat to twitch its back and tail uncontrollably? Feline Hyperesthesia ...

Nuclear medicine

... imaging applies similar principles, taking multiple planar images from different angles and then refining them using a process known as filtered back projection generating three dimensional views of organs or areas of interest. Since each nuclear medicine radionuclide has a unique gamma-ray ...

Somatic dysfunction

... Journal of Medicine in November of 1999, researchers concluded that OMM and traditional drug therapy resulted in equivalent resolution of lower back pain in a nearly identical time frame. The difference was that those receiving OMM required less pharmaceutical intervention. The advantage of OMM ...

Ultradian

... there are anecdotal cases where situational factors can produce distinct and separate periods of depression or mania/hypomania, switching back and forth. Because there is very little research into this particular form of cycling, the terminology is borrowed from the more established research ...