Operative Strategies and Wound Complications for Morel-Lavallee Injuries Undergoing Excisional Debridement: A Pacific Coast Surgical Association Multicenter Study
= .035).ConclusionThis prospective multicenter study over three years demonstrated that a fifth of MLLs undergoing excisional debridement developed postoperative skin necrosis. Excisional debridement also had a more than two-fold increased risk of wound complications compared to other OIs. These findings underscore the importance of investigating alternative operative techniques, such as incision and drainage or minimally invasive debridement methods.
Authors
- Rebecca E. Plevin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3321-8076)
- Dennis Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5707-2609)
- Hannah Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6366-1741)
- Negaar Aryan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9514-8539)
- Graal Diaz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5556-1636)
- Dunya Bayat
- Eric Trevizo
- Joshua C. Dilday (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6747-0478)
- Areg Grigorian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0998-796X)
- Angela Neville (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7660-4711)
- Sara Edwards
- Aaron Cotton-Betteridge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1143-7526)
- Greigory Park
- Peter D. Nguyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-7167)
- Juliet Alexander
- Meghan Cochran-Yu
- Ning Lü (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8272-3883)
- Morgan Schellenberg
- Naveen Balan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7233-1306)
- Samantha Underwood
- Rachael A. Callcut (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1582-6716)
- Dennis J. Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5716-209X)
- Khalid Mahmoud
- Maren Smith
- Claudia Alvarez
- Arianne Johnson
- Walter Biffl
- Cheyenne C. Sonntag
- John Scolaro
- Mohamad Abou Chaar
- Todd Costantini
- Areti Tillou
- Harly Furlong
- Anaar Siletz
- Eric Ley
- Jeffry Nahmias
- Kenji Inaba
- Juliana Smith
- Karen Minoza
- Daniel Stephens
- Jarrett Santorelli
- Leonardo Weber Graeff
- Thomas Duncan
- Martin Schreiber
- Lilian Von Husen
- Deborah Stein
- Raul Coimbra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3759-6851)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Unifor (NO)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (US)
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Ochsner Medical Center (US)
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (US)
- California Southern University (US)
- Riverside University Health System - Medical Center (US)
- WinnMed (US)
- University of California System (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Loma Linda University Health Care (US)
- Scripps Memorial Hospital (US)
- Ventura County Medical Center (US)
- Harbor–UCLA Medical Center (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The American Surgeon
- Published
- 2026-04-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00031348261443695
- Primary Topic
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00