Patent ID: 8328722

Claim:
A method for esthetically treating cellulite skin of a patient by lipotomy, characterized in that it comprises at least the following steps: 1) determination of the skin surface of an area to be treated by means in particular of a grid on the skin, 2) ultrasonographic evaluation of the volume of fatty tissue underlying said surface of the area to be treated, at rest, 3) ultrasonographic evaluation of the volume of fatty tissue underlying said surface of the area to be treated, said tissue being compressed to the maximum, 4) calculation of the percentage (BI or Bernstein Index) represented by the volume of the extracellular sector of said tissue in said area, considering the volume represented by the cells of the fatty tissue to be incompressible, according to the following equation (1): BI (%)= E 0 −E P /E 0 (1) in which: E 0 is the ultrasonographic thickness of said fatty tissue at rest, E P is the ultrasonographic thickness of said fatty tissue compressed to the maximum, 5) determination, by calculation, of at least one of the parameters of a hypotonic solution to be administered, said parameter being chosen from the volume and the osmolarity.