A Bipolar Coaxial Microprobe for Safe Transvitreal Diathermy

Liporeduction by Endocoagulation

“…THE USE OF high-frequency coagulation started in the 1960s 1 and the insulated needle was first used at the end of that same decade. In the 1970s, bipolar coagulator and diathermocoagulation use was consolidated 1,2 and it has been used in orthopedics, 3,4 gynecology and obstetrics, 5-7 ophthalmology, 1,[8][9][10][11][12] neurology and neurosurgery, [13][14][15][16][17] laparoscopy, 18,19 abdominal surgery, 2,18-25 otorhinolaryngology, [26][27][28] urology, 29,30 plastic surgery, [31][32][33][34] myocardial and vascular surgery, [35][36][37] dermatology, 38,39 and dentistry. 40,41 We have amplified its use in dermatology using a short-wave radiofrequency diathermy source for exceedingly loose tissue localized in the external malar prominence that remains even after consecutive blepharoplasties, as well as some patients who do not want to undergo radical plastic surgery, but wish to improve this kind of localized alteration in the submental and mandibular areas between the external malar prominence and the mandibular angle.…”