No problem with liposuction? Deaths and disastrous complications following liposuction - A review of 70 cases in Germany between 1998 and 2002;Liposuktion - Kein problem? Majorkomplikationen und todesfälle im deutschsprachigen raum zwischen 1998 und 2002

Lymphologie in Forschung und Praxis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 74-78

  Lehnhardt, M ^a   Homann, H H ^a   Druecke, D ^a   Palka, P ^a   Steinau, H U ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications tumescence; Liposuction; TLA

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GAS GANGRENE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIPOSUCTION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 10844252300     PISSN: 14335255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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