Prevention of seroma after abdominoplasty

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 414-417

  Beer, Gertrude M ^a   Wallner, Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Landesklinikum Feldkirch   (Austria)

Author keywords

abdominoplasty; complications; postoperative immobilization; seroma; thromboembolism prophylaxis

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; COMPRESSION GARMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEROMA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPRESSION STOCKING; FOLLOW UP; IMMOBILIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROMA; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955034433     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090820X10374116     Document Type: Article

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