Ten years of outpatient abdominoplasties: safe and effective

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-275

  Stevens, W Grant ^a   Spring, Michelle A ^a   Stoker, David A ^a   Cohen, Robert ^a   Vath, Steven D ^a   Hirsch, Elliot M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ACCREDITATION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPOSUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR FORMATION; SEROMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 34250012794     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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