Complications After Superficial Plane Cervicofacial Rhytidectomy: A Retrospective Analysis of 178 Consecutive Facelifts and Review of the Literature

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2227-2234

  Griffin, John E ^a   Jo, Chris ^a  

^a Baptist Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; FACE SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SKIN NECROSIS; SURGEON; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; DISSECTION; FACE; FACIAL MUSCLES; FASCIA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECROSIS; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 35348890129     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2006.10.075     Document Type: Article

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