• Saudi Med J · Jan 2007

    Morel-Lavallee lesion. Results of surgical drainage with the use of synthetic glue.

    • Murat Demirel, Ferit Dereboy, Ali Ozturk, Egemen Turhan, and Tarik Yazar.
    • Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Ankara Bayindir Hospital, Turkey. perthes2000@yahoo.com
    • Saudi Med J. 2007 Jan 1; 28 (1): 65-7.

    ObjectiveTo evaluate the results of surgical drainage and use of synthetic glue in Morel-Lavallee lesions.MethodsWe treated 7 Morel-Lavallee lesions in Ankara Bayindir Hospital, Ankara, Turkey between April 2003 and June 2004. These lesions developed in 5 male patients due to crush under a vehicle or a traffic accident. The mean age was 32.8 years; range 16-55. All lesions were localized in thigh. One patient had surgery due to acetabulum fracture and one had an urological operation for urethral rupture. All patients were operated 6-48 hours after the injury. After surgical drainage, soft tissues were attached with the use of synthetic glue and compressive bandage was applied. We defined healing as the loss of fluctuation and elicitation of the normal mobility of the injured skin on manual examination. The mean follow-up was 11.6 months (range 8-20 months).ResultsOne patient was operated for acetabulum fracture and had a bilateral Morel-Lavallee lesion 2 days after the operation. This patient was reoperated for drainage. All lesions were healed with a mean of 5 weeks (range 3-8 weeks). No infection, necrosis or recurrences were detected during the follow-up.ConclusionResults of the treatment with the use of synthetic glue and surgical drainage in Morel-Lavallee lesion are satisfactory with early healing time without recurrence.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…