Endoscopy in Plastic Surgery


 * Advantages: safety, effectiveness, small scars, low morbidity, reduced pain, shorter hospitalization + incapacity for work, reduced incidence of infectious complications and hematomas.
 * Disadvantages: initial costs, contraindications for endoscopic procedures.
 * Reconstructive surgery: subsurface tissue manipulation from a remote approach with minimal scarring; placement of tissue expanders; muscle flap, fascia, vein/nerve graft acquisition; treatment syndrom canalis carpi
 * Aesthetic surgery: minimization of scars; forehead lift + brow lift (lowering of the forehead and eyebrows), supplement to face lift + neck lift, augmentation mammaplasty, abdominoplasty etc.

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 * Endoscopy
 * Endoscope
 * Plastic surgery