Postbariatric patients undergoing body-contouring abdominoplasty: Two techniques to raise the flap and their influence on postoperative complications

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 613-617

  Araco, Antonino ^a   Sorge, Roberto ^b   Overton, John ^c   Araco, Francesco ^a   Gravante, Gianpiero ^d  

^a Dolan Park Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominoplasty; Body contouring surgery; Complications; Diathermocoagulation; Hematoma; Scalpel; Seroma; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL FLAP; ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALPEL; SEROMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNCOPE; THERMOCOAGULATION; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ABDOMINAL WALL; INSTRUMENTATION; LIPECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 66149154275     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181856d85     Document Type: Article

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