Liposuction to Remove Scar Tissue from Seromas After Tummy Tuck?

Thank you for your question. It is hard to provided with a valid medical opinion without photos.  I would suggest to be treated by board certificated plastic surgeon with experience in this procedure, to get the best desired results.
Kind Regards,Dr. Emmanuel Mallol Cotes.-

It is difficult to say if liposuction is needed without examining you. My initial thought based on your description would be that there probably is not a lot or any fat in that area. This area may be a seroma bursa (sac) or scar tissue. I would recommend get a couple of different opinions from board certified plastic surgeons.
Good Luck.

As Dr.Aldea stated the accpted treatment is to go back to surgery and remove the scar tissue. Liposuction can suck the fatty tissue , not the scar tissue. You may have too much residual fatty tissue that make the scar tissue look too prominent and your surgeon is trying too help you by removing some of the fat.

Removing drains too soon, having a radiated area, patient noncompliance and other factors contribute to re-accumulation of fluid and seroma formation.
When the fluid is not rapidly absorbed and outlasts the healing process, because the tummy skin/fat cannot re-adhere to the underlying muscle, it literally walls off the fluid collection (seroma) with a scar creating a CHRONIC seroma / Bursa - a smooth scar lined pocket under the tummy tuck flap. The scarring can gnarl and deform the overlying skin producing the appearance you described.
The accepted solution is going back in and surgically removing the scar tissue converting the chronic smooth lined cavity to a raw wound which heals uneventfully in most cases. Your surgeon may be trying to obtain the same effect with liposuction. I am not sure that this will be as successful as grabbing the bull by the horns and doing the accepted procedure. I would be curious how my colleagues feel in this regard.

This is a difficult problem, and whether or not liposuction will help depends upon how much scar tissue you have. Liposuction does sometimes work with limited amounts of tissue, but keep in mind that you will be a bit swollen from the suction initially, so it may be 6 weeks or more before you can assess the results. In some cases we open up the incision and advance the skin a little further if possible, but whether or not you would need this would have to be determined by your surgeon. Good luck, /nsn.

Hi.
This is a difficult problem, which we try to prevent at all costs. Liposuction will not help, and may create more internal scar tissue. You probably need open removal of the scar tissue, through the tummy tuck scar.