TABLE 4.

Effect of abdominal binders (AB) on the occurrence of postoperative seroma.

Study	Type of study	Population	Effect on seromas
Chowbey et al. [23]	Retrospective descriptive study AB prescribed for 1 week	Patients undergoing laparoscopic hernia surgery with intraperitoneal prothesis	Decrease in seromas from 32% of patients to 18% No statistics
Ortiz et al. [13]	National prospective randomised multi-centre study on 40 patients [2 groups: AB for 2 weeks (21 patients) during the day or not wearing an AB (19 patients)]	Patient operated on for an incisional hernia using the Stoppa-Rives technique	Significantly more seroma in the belt group 13 vs. 9, p = 0.012 (main effect time)
Rothman et al. [26]	Literature review	Patients undergoing major or minor laparotomy, laparoscopy or abdominoplasty	No significant difference in the occurrence of seroma