title: Massive scrotal edema as a complication of abdominoplasty.
abstract: Massive scrotal edema is an unreported complication of abdominoplasty. This patient's postoperative decompensation of medial thigh and scrotal lymphatic return may well have been due to an occult lymphedema tarda or previously compromised lymphatics from the fibrosis of venous stasis disease and obesity.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000601:surgery; D012611:Scrotum / Q000601:surgery*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects*