After massive weight loss: Patients' expectations of body contouring surgery

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 544-548

  Kitzinger, Hugo B ^a   Abayev, Sara ^a   Pittermann, Anna ^a   Karle, Birgit ^a   Bohdjalian, Arthur ^a   Langer, Felix B ^a   Prager, Gerhard ^a   Frey, Manfred ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Gastric bypass; Plastic surgery; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY CONTOURING SURGERY; BODY IMAGE; DERMATITIS; EXCESS SKIN; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONFIDENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AUSTRIA; BARIATRIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN; STATISTICS;

AUSTRIA; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY IMAGE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84861809107     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: 17080428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-011-0551-6     Document Type: Article

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