Don't try this at home: Liposuction in the kitchen by an unqualified practitioner leads to disastrous complications [16]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 460-461

  Desrosiers III, Arthur E ^a   Grant, Robert T ^a   Breitbart, Arnold S ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; LIPOSUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE EXPANSION; TISSUE NECROSIS; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; LIPECTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1242309434     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000100616.87383.2E     Document Type: Letter

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