[Abdominoplasty: towards a two procedures surgery? Retrospective study of postoperative complications about 100...

Abdominoplasty has become in France a frequent, appearing to be technically easy but nevertheless source of potentially serious complications clearly deteriorating the aesthetic results and the satisfaction rate of the patients. By studying the results of a hundred abdominoplasties performed between 2001 and 2004, we could count the incidence of the various complications by seeking their possible factors of risk (tobacco or ponderal overload). In spite of the use of a lymphatic preserving technique, the percentage of séroma reaches 12%. The high complications rate or the number of insufficient results explains a rate of surgical reoperation of 31%. Abdominoplasty passed from the statute of repairing surgery to that of aesthetic surgery. The level standard in terms of result became equivalent to the other purely aesthetic interventions. Obtaining an optimal result thus requires often two operational stages, data element that it henceforth seems essential to us to provide to the patients.