Complications of abdominal contouring surgery in obese patients: Current status

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 598-604

  Zuelzer, Helen B ^a   Ratliff, Catherine R ^a   Drake, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal contouring; Abdominoplasty; Body contouring; Massive weight loss; Panniculecomy; Pannus; Plastic surgery; Post operative complications; Surgery complications; Wound complications

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBESITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951768034     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181cf9f9e     Document Type: Conference Paper

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