Risk Factors for Wound Complications Following Abdominoplasty (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION In the last few decades, abdominoplasty has become an increasingly popular and satisfying method of body contouring (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8). Factors that may have contributed to the popularity of abdominoplasty include: the society's emphasis on youthful appearance, increased awareness of self-image and fitness and the growth of aesthetic surgery in general (1). The usual candidates for abdominoplasty are women in their fourth through sixth decades, which had completed their families and left with lax abdominal wall, striae of pregnancy, or scars of previous surgical operations (1), (9). Another group of patients seeking for abdominoplasty among other body contouring procedures are those patients who had successful gastric bypass surgery with massive weight reduction. These patients are left with redundant skin, so abdominoplasty aims to improve post-weight reduction body aesthetics and function (2), (9), (10), (11).