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What is a seroma?

What is a seroma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pocket of clear serous fluid that sometimes develops in the body after surgery.
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During these procedures, a large seroma that had formed over the surgical site after each procedure was drained.
The differential diagnoses of the swelling, as visualized on MRI scan, were either a post-traumatic seroma or some form of fat necrosis.
An incremental change in overall postoperative, digestive, hemorrhage, seroma, wound complications, or in-hospital mortality was not demonstrated as hospital volume increased.
A seroma that developed at the hernia site after 1 week was treated conservatively.
We also identified other surgical complications, including seroma, surgical wound infections, hematoma, and flap necrosis.
The large pannus predisposes patients to fluid accumulation, creating an environment conducive to seroma formation, infection, and wound edge separation or dehiscence.

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