How to rid seroma one year after tummy tuck? Can it be removed with lipo or is lipo to it more dangerous?

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Hi, I had a tummy tuck and bbl august 27, 2013 in another country. I had another ps take a look and she decided I needed jp tubes inserted back in me. While she was poking to insert so much fluid just gushed out; nevertheless I have a seroma. Since it's been there so long How do you resolve an issue of this nature?? In other words do I have to have another tummy tuck or how do you drain something of this? Can lipo hell it or kill me?? Please help

Alejandro J. Quiroz, MD · Answer

After such a long time after
the seroma, the treatment need to be carefully evaluated.  If is not symptomatic observation with a
compression garment  needs to be consider.  If  is associate
with pain or a deformity a drain or open 
of the seroma needs to be done.

Joel Patrick Maier, MD · Answer

The simple treatment would be to percutaneously aspirate it, and hope it does not come back. If it recurs, then operative treatment with excision of the seroma bursa and drainage with JP tubes like you had with your tummy tuck. Good luck and thanks for sharing.

Gary Lawton, MD, FACS · Answer

Typically I find the best way to deal with this is to open the area, cut out the psuedobursa in its entirety, put drains in, and let it heal.  Anything else is less effective.

Kenneth D. Christman, MD · Answer

Surgical excision is more definitive, but inserting a drain for several weeks might be effective if surgery is not a good option.  The potential for infection needs to be considered, and antibiotic coverage should be used in order to minimize this possibility.

Maan Kattash, MD, FRCS, FACS - Account Suspended · Answer

A seroma cavity that is a year out is usually "walled off" and may need more than a JP drain to eliminate it. Liposuction is not a solution nor revision abdominoplasty unless it is warranted to remove the seroma cavity along with its wall.

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