Does quilting suture prevent seroma in abdominoplasty?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1060-1064

  Nahas, Fabio Xerfan ^a   Ferreira, Lydia Masako ^b   Ghelfond, Charles ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; SKIN MALFORMATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SUTURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEROMA; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33847233329     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000242493.11655.68     Document Type: Article

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