Abdominoplasty after weight loss in morbidly obese patients: A 4-year clinical experience

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1319-1324

  Fraccalvieri, Marco ^a   Datta, Giacomo ^a   Bogetti, Paolo ^a   Verna, Giovanni ^a   Pedrale, Roberto ^a   Bocchiotti, Maria Alessandra ^a   Boriani, Filippo ^a   Duca Obbialero, Fabrizio ^a   Kefalas, Nicola ^a   Bruschi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominoplasty; Body contouring; Eating; Lipectomy; Morbid obesity; Obesity; Plastic surgery; Quality of life; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ABSCESS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FISTULA; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROPLASTY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROMA; THYROID DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ABDOMINAL FAT; LIPECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH BYPASS;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC DIVERSION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; GASTROPLASTY; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MALE; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 38449109851     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9235-7     Document Type: Article

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