Liposuction Port-Site Protection: Necessity or Needless Expense?
Hunter R Moyer, Kayla M Sisson · 2024
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Description
Moyer and Sisson test whether protecting liposuction port sites cuts local complications, in a study from twenty twenty-four. Liposuction is the most common cosmetic surgery in the United States. Port sites can scar, split open, or infect, yet protection had never been studied. The team reviews sixty consecutive cosmetic and fat transfer cases.
The first thirty cases use no protection, and the next thirty use a tubing shield. Groups match on demographics and surgical measures. Complications hit a third of unprotected patients versus a small share of protected ones. Wound splitting drives most of the gap. Protected patients need less wound care and fewer revisions. Simple protection looks well worth its minor cost.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hunter R Moyer, Kayla M Sisson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |