Facelift complications and the risk of venous thromboembolism: A single center's experience

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 413-420

  Abboushi, Nour ^a   Yezhelyev, Maksym ^b   Symbas, John ^b   Nahai, Foad ^b  

^a not available   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

complication; facelift; rhytidectomy; venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST REDUCTION; CHEMOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECTROPION; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPOSUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOPEXY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RHYTIDOPLASTY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN NECROSIS; SMOKING; SURGICAL RISK; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ABDOMEN; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ABDOMEN; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHYTIDOPLASTY; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84864867699     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1090820X12442213     Document Type: Article

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