I am over 2 months post calf implant surgery. My incision has completely opened twice due to persistent seroma and shows no signs of letting up. (no infection). My surgeon says to keep the incision open until the seroma stops on its own. So i have just been using tons of gauze and cleaning the area regularly. The problem is that I have a giant hole in the back of each knee. How long should I wait until I ask to try something different? Is there a possibility that my seroma will never stop?
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Answer: My Incision Won't Close Due to Persistent Seroma. I'm I Getting the Right Advice?
Thank you for your question. Any implant has the possibility to move yet it is relatively rare. If the calf implant was put under the fatty tissue, it is more likely to move. This is why most of us place the implants under the muscle fascia (I have done approximately 120 calf...
Skinny lower legs cause psychological stress for women and men. A combination of calf implant with fat injections is sometimes the best option. If you do not have fat to harvest then calf implant is the best option to go. Recent approach for calf implant is the endoscopic calf augmentation...
It looks from the photos you have sent that calf implants properly and conservatively performed would make a wonderful difference and improvement. Calf Implants have become a very popular procedure with exceedingly high patient satisfaction and very low complication rates. Most of the new calf...