Safety of liposuction using exclusively tumescent local anesthesia in 3,240 consecutive cases

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1728-1735

  Habbema, Louis ^a  

^a Medisch Centrum 't Gooi   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BICARBONATE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLONIDINE; DIAZEPAM; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FUROSEMIDE; FUSIDATE SODIUM; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPLICATION SITE SWELLING; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERALIZED EDEMA; HAND EDEMA; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LIPOSUCTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; NAUSEA; PANNICULITIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN HYPERTROPHY; SKIN NECROSIS; TUMESCENT LOCAL ANESTHESIA; URETER CATHETERIZATION; URINE RETENTION; WOUND CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72349092830     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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