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Figure 5. A massive weight loss patient desiring a lower body lift to improve the buttocks and the outer thigh (A). Despite a large planned area of excision with this lower body lift procedure (B), undermining with a Lockwood dissector, and liposuction of the saddlebags, the recurrence rate is high, and the appearance of the saddlebag is similar to the pre-operative deformity (C).