Clinical Study
Panniculectomy Combined with Bariatric Surgery by Laparotomy: An Analysis of 325 Cases
Table 6
Comparison of postoperative complications found in this study in the first and second 3-year periods with those reported in a previous study [
9].
| | Postoperative complications | First 3 years
( | Second 3 years
() | Combined treatment
() | Postbariatric panniculectomy
() |
| | Dehiscence
| 18.9% | 8.1% | 9.8% | 7.4% | | Seroma | 31.1% | 5.0% | 4.2% | 4.7% | | Hemorrhage | 7.3% | 3.1% | 1.9% | 1.3% | | DVT/PE | 4.9% | 0.6% | — | — | | Incisional hernia | 23.2% | 6.8% | — | — | | Skin necrosis | 6.1% | 1.9% | — | — | | Death | 0.6% | 0% | — | — |
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