ABSTRACT
HISTORY OF SYRINGE LIPOSCULPTURING It was in September 1985, 7 years after Giorgio Fischer’s first demonstration of machine liposuction in Paris, that I discovered by accident that adipose tissue could be extracted using a syringe. One of my patients wanted to have liposculpturing of the knees, but she was frightened (for unknown reasons) about the use of anesthesia, either local or general, as well as about drugs for premedication or sedation. As she was highly motivated, I performed the operation with the only anesthetic possibility left: cryanesthesia.
