Archives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery  2017;23(1):41-44

doi:10.14730/aaps.2017.23.1.41

Occurrence and Surgical Treatment of Massive Morel-Lavallée Lesion after Large-Volume Liposuction: A Rare Clinical Case.

Byeong Jun KIM 1 ; Chul Hoon CHUNG ; Seung Jun LEE

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Keywords

Lipectomy; Obesity morbid; Seroma

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

A soft tissue injury can cause the formation of a pseudocyst in the subcutaneous tissue due to a hematoma, seroma, or liquefied fat. These cysts are Morel-Lavallée lesion. A 30-year-old male patient had previously received a large-volume Liposuction. After a couple of years, Morel-Lavallée lesion has formed on the abdomen. So after the two communicating massive sacs were resected, we advanced the upper flap inferiorly and resected a margin of the redundant tissue.