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This study was designed to evaluate the aesthetic outcome
of combined abdominoplasty with Cesarean delivery. The study included 50 pregnant women from February 2008 to December 2009
with an average follow up period of 6 months. Nine patients (18%) developed wound infection; three of them (9%) developed
wound dehiscence. Six patients (12%) developed lower abdominal skin necrosis; three of them (6%) were treated conservatively
and healed by secondary intention, while surgical debridement and secondary sutures were needed in the other three patients
(6%). Residual abdominal skin redundancy in 9 patients (18%), outward bulging of the abdomen and lack of waist definition
in 16 patients (32%), and outward bulging of the umbilicus in 12 patients (24%) were the reported unaesthetic resu…
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