[Surgical treatment of Launois-Bensaude disease. The value of liposuction].

Launois-Bensaude adenolipomatosis or Madelung's disease was described in 1898. Typically, the lipomatosis affects chronic alcoholic patients with a symmetrical distribution around the neck and occiput. The mass gradually diffuses into the scapular, deltoid, chest wall or abdominal areas. Cosmetic deformity and the difficulty of obtaining clothes, lead patients to seek surgical treatment. This surgical management (only effective treatment) has a severe tendency to haemorrhage and dissection is complicated by infiltrations of neighbouring tissue. Suction curettage lipectomy associated with classical surgical resection were performed in three patients, in different sites. Respective indications for the various techniques are studied in this paper.