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abstract：:To correct velopharyngeal incompetence, a new treatment concept was proposed in Distraction Osteogenesis for Lengthening of the Hard Palate: Part I (using lengthening of the hard and soft palate by distraction osteogenesis). Cephalometry and computed tomography showed successful elongation of the posterior hard palate...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Carls FR,Schüpbach P,Sailer HF,Jackson IT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent controversy encountered with silicone breast implants has increased the use of autogenous tissue for breast reconstruction following mastectomy. Surveillance of patients who have undergone autogenous tissue reconstruction is important in the evaluation of recurrent or new cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Ahn CY,Narayanan K,Gorczyca DP,DeBruhl ND,Shaw WW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound and CT scans have been used to examine 12 patients with suspected medial orbital wall fractures. A good correlation between ultrasound and CT scanning was demonstrated, and the authors believe that either investigation is a suitable alternative to conventional radiology when this type of injury is suspected...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Ord RA,Le May M,Duncan JG,Moos KF

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients who had undergone ablative surgery for advanced squamous cell carcinoma in which more than half of the tongue had been resected underwent reconstruction in which the cutaneous nerve of a free flap was anastomosed to the stump of the transected lingual nerve. Eight of the patients underwent reconstruc...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kimata Y,Uchiyama K,Ebihara S,Kishimoto S,Asai M,Saikawa M,Ohyama W,Haneda T,Hayashi R,Onitsuka T,Nakatsuka T,Harii K

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Velopharyngeal insufficiency occurs in 5 to 20 percent of children following repair of a cleft palate. The pharyngeal flap is the traditional secondary procedure for correcting velopharyngeal insufficiency; however, because of perceived complications, alternative techniques have become popular. The authors' ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Sullivan SR,Marrinan EM,Mulliken JB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：LEARNING OBJECTIVES:After studying this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Explain the epidemiology of severe burn injury in the context of socioeconomic status, gender, age, and burn cause. 2. Describe challenges with burn depth evaluation and novel methods of adjunctive assessment. 3. Summarize the surviv...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Zuo KJ,Medina A,Tredget EE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New upper pedicle reduction mammaplasty and mastopexy techniques are presented. The surgical steps are described point by point. An analysis is made of the results obtained in 25 patients who underwent surgery between November of 1987 and November of 1988 and were examined in December of 1990 with a mean follow-up of ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Marconi F,Cavina C

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop new types of surgical flaps that utilize portions of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (e.g., a thin flap or an adipofascial flap), three-dimensional investigation of the vasculature in the skin and subcutaneous tissue has been anticipated. In the present study, total-body arterial injection and three-dimens...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Nakajima H,Minabe T,Imanishi N

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Masseteric and hypoglossal nerve transfers are reliable alternatives for reanimating short-term facial paralysis. To date, few studies exist in the literature comparing these techniques. This work presents a quantitative comparison of masseter-facial transposition versus hemihypoglossal facial transposition ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Hontanilla B,Marré D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care reforms aimed at bundling payments attempt to contain costs. Uncovering variation in spending provides one strategy for decreasing expenditure. This study aims to investigate interhospital cost variation for thumb replantation. METHODS:A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of patients undergo...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Billig JI,Zhong L,Chung KC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During periorbital noninvasive and surgical procedures, there is the risk of iatrogenic injury to the emerging point of the ophthalmic artery. This study aimed to determine the three-dimensional location of the emerging point of the ophthalmic artery and to provide clinicians with anatomical information that...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Cong LY,Choi YJ,Hu KS,Tansatit T,Kim HJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluated patients who underwent primary breast surgery within a single group practice from 1994 to 2009. Reoperations were divided by reoperation reason into total reoperations and implant-specific reoperations. The authors hypothesized that the implant-specific reoperation rate will provide the ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Codner MA,Mejia JD,Locke MB,Mahoney A,Thiels C,Nahai FR,Hester TR,Nahai F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Millard rotation-advancement flap has become the most widely used technique for unilateral cleft lip repair. The philtral ridge repair is a modified straight-line technique that was developed to further optimize the scar associated with the rotation-advancement flap. The purpose of this article is to int...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Cline JM,Oyer SL,Javidnia H,Nguyen SA,Sykes JM,Kline RM,Patel KG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plastic surgery has historically been linked to war. Between 2008 and the end of combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014, British military plastic surgeons formed part of the multinational military surgical team at the Role 3 Medical Treatment Facility, Camp Bastion, Helmand Province. The present study aime...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Maitland L,Lawton G,Baden J,Cubison T,Rickard R,Kay A,Hettiaratchy S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant body of literature supports a role for the dura mater underlying cranial sutures in the regulation of sutural fate. These studies have implicated regional differentiation of the dura mater based on association with fusing and patent rat cranial sutures. The purpose of these experiments was to isolate and...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Mehrara BJ,Greenwald J,Chin GS,Dudziak M,Sagrioglu J,Steinbrech DS,Saadeh PB,Gittes GK,Longaker MT

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rotary device for dermabrasion is presented that allows a superficial dermabrasion to be performed quickly with low risk of contour defects. ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Schetrumpf JR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outcome of arterialized venous flaps is quite varied. The authors' initial experiments showed that a good vascular bed contributes significantly to survival of the flap. In continuation of these experiments, this study aimed to understand the influence of architectural variations on flap outcome. METHODS:Fa...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Pittet B,Quinodoz P,Alizadeh N,Schlaudraff KU,Mahajan AL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inferiorly based rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap is transferred to the sacrogluteal region through a transiliac approach. This technique is a simple and safe alternative to obtain a short pathway from the anterior abdomen to the sacral area. ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Hayashi A,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our experiences with 42 major craniofacial osteotomies--performed at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, between July, 1971 and January, 1974--are related. Guidelines for operative care and anesthetic management are outlined--with regard to the length and positioning of endotracheal tubes, fluid and blood replace...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Davies DW,Munro IR

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish the viable storage time of human skin stored by refrigeration at 4 degrees C in McCoy's 5A medium and to establish whether oxygenating the medium improves the viable storage time, the following experiment was conducted. Eighty discs of human split-thickness skin graft, each 3 mm in diameter, were stored i...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： DeBono R,Rao GS,Berry RB

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty has been the treatment of choice for treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency, regardless of velopharyngeal closure pattern. The authors hypothesize that pharyngeal flap pharyngoplasty is more effective in treating velopharyngea...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Armour A,Fischbach S,Klaiman P,Fisher DM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors performed immediate breast reconstruction on four patients using a sensate latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap accompanied by neurorrhaphy during the past 6 years. In the neurorrhaphy, the lateral cutaneous branch of the dorsal primary divisions of the seventh thoracic nerve, which controls the sensatio...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yano K,Hosokawa K,Takagi S,Nakai K,Kubo T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cicatricial lower eyelid ectropion is caused by a shortening of the anterior lamella, with resultant eversion of the eyelid away from the globe. Treatment is typically surgical; however, the author hypothesized that a nonsurgical injection of hyaluronic acid filler could stretch the tethered skin and act as ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Fezza JP

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors evaluated donor-site morbidity following free thoracodorsal artery perforator flap harvest comprehensively and investigated patient-and operation-related factors that might contribute to adverse outcomes. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was conducted for all cases of free thoracodorsal artery p...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Lee KT,Kim A,Mun GH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complete corrugator supercilii muscle resection is important for the surgical treatment of migraine headaches and may help prevent postoperative abnormalities in surgical forehead rejuvenation. Specific topographic analysis of corrugator supercilii muscle dimensions and its detailed association with the supr...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Janis JE,Ghavami A,Lemmon JA,Leedy JE,Guyuron B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nipple reconstruction by dermal-epidermal advancement flaps from the latissimus dorsi skin island was performed in 10 consecutive patients. There was no tissue loss and the nipples are still prominent 16 months after operation. The technique avoids further donor-site distortion and benefits from the use of available t...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Barton FE Jr

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the study was to investigate the morphologic changes of distraction osteogenesis performed on the mandible in growing minipigs. METHODS:Eighteen piglets were divided into four groups. In group A (n = 6), animals received unilateral osteotomy and the distractor device was activated for 2 weeks...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Chang HH,Tseng H,Hsieh TM,Huang CY,Chen YH,Hsu CY,Cheng WM,Chen MH,Chen SR,Yao CC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for orienting cut nerve ends for suturing is presented. A mirror is used to reflect one end, making its image identical to that of the other end--so that proper orientation is greatly facilitated. ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Vickers DW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For breast reconstruction, we have found that breast symmetry can be created optimally when the patient is brought to a totally upright position with the trunk vertical and perpendicular to the floor. The size of the opposite breast can better be appreciated. Nipple and areola position can be determined accurately eve...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Smoot EC,Ross D,Silverberg B,Ruttle M,Newman LM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep mechanical massage has been advocated as an alternative or adjunctive therapy for the contouring of subcutaneous fat and as a treatment for cellulite. We evaluated the effects of deep mechanical massage using two pig models. Yucatan pigs were divided into three groups (n = 4). One side of each body received 4, 10...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Adcock D,Paulsen S,Jabour K,Davis S,Nanney LB,Shack RB

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00