ArticleAesthetic plastic surgery2026
Does Suction Strategy Using a Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy System at the Extended Latissimus Dorsi Flap Donor Site After Breast Reconstruction Contribute to a Reduction in Seroma Formation?
Article in Aesthetic plastic surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThis study aimed to evaluate the impact of different drainage systems on seroma formation at the donor site following breast reconstruction with extended latissimus dorsi (ELD) flaps.
methodsA retrospective chart review included all patients who underwent ELD flap breast reconstruction between January 2014 and December 2025. Patients were divided into two groups: high-negative-pressure drainage using a negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device and conventional drainage. One-to-one propensity score matching based on age and body mass index minimized selection bias.
resultsThe initial cohort included 64 patients (NPWT: n = 26; conventional: n = 38), and propensity score matching yielded 22 pairs. In the propensity-matched cohort, the median daily drainage volume on postoperative day 11 (immediately before drain removal) was significantly lower in the NPWT group than in the conventional group (22.0 [IQR: 14.0-31.5] mL/day vs. 45.0 [IQR: 34.3-56.3] mL/day; p = <0.001). However, no significant between-group differences were observed in the rate of postoperative seroma formation (72.7% vs. 86.4%; p = 0.457), median total aspirated volume after drain removal (46.5 [IQR: 2.3-124.3] mL vs. 79.5 [IQR: 44.0-145.3] mL; p = 0.294), or median duration of seroma persistence (2.0 [IQR: 0.3-3.8] weeks vs. 4.0 [IQR: 3.0-5.0] weeks; p = 0.083).
conclusionsDrainage using the NPWT device did not significantly prevent donor-site seroma formation compared with conventional drainage. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .
Indexed as
Identifiers
42897245What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.