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abstract：:Contemporary studies and observations have left no doubt that occlusive dressings are superior to open treatment after laser resurfacing. The currently available occlusive dressings, however, are time-consuming to apply, often dislodge shortly after application, and most require reapplication. The authors report a cro...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Michelow BJ,Varghai A,Movassaghi K,Guyuron B

更新日期：2002-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The V-Y advancement myotarsocutaneous flap was used to avoid excessive scarring during reconstruction of a full-thickness upper eyelid defect following surgical excision of a malignant tumor. This method has a number of advantages: It has a short operative time, it is a one-stage procedure, it does not require lining ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Okada E,Iwahira Y,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nasolabial flap is a pedicled flap with a wide description and application for use in lateral nasal wall, ala, columella, and intraoral reconstruction. It is a versatile flap that is well tolerated by the patient, with very acceptable donor-site scars. The soft and spongy nature of the flap, with its pro...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Thornton JF,Weathers WM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The viability of axial pattern skin flaps in pigs was assessed by the use of intravenous fluorescein, intradermal injection of 133Xe in saline, intravenous 51Cr tagged red cells, and angiography. The results were correlated with flap survival at 4 days postoperatively. Intravenous fluorescein provided the most accurat...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Prather A,Blackburn JP,Williams TR,Lynn JA

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines separate residents' education into six core competencies or subjects. The authors address the least intuitive of these, systems-based practice. In systems-based practice, educators and residents must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiven...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Davison SP,Cadavid JD,Spear SL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dentofacial deformities are traditionally treated by maxillary and mandibular osteotomies conducted separately or simultaneously. Recently, distraction osteogenesis has become an irreplaceable part of the surgical armamentarium, for its ability to induce new bone formation between the surfaces of bone segments that ar...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Schendel SA,Hazan-Molina H,Aizenbud D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that incomplete resorption of osteons in an autogenous cortical bone graft may limit its replacement by new bone regeneration was explored by implanting a hydroxyapatite replica of a coral skeletal structure into bone gaps. This implant contained channels and interconnections similar to those in osteon-...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Holmes RE

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I didactically compared the breast as a glandular cone with an envelope of skin and subcutaneous tissue. The aesthetic alterations of the breast are classified in four groups related to form, to volume, to grams, and to ptosis in centimeters. An imaginary plane that passes by the mammary sulcus (plane A) will determin...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Bozola AR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of total maxillary advancement on the growing skull was examined in 25 pigs, subjected to facial operations of varied severity at the age of 5 weeks (elevation of periosteum, simple osteotomy, and osteotomy immobilized by wire fixation, with or without bone grafts) and in controls. When the animals were kil...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Munro IR

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Internet was evaluated as a source of information for the layperson on the topic of breast augmentation. Three commonly used search engines (Excite, AOL, and Yahoo) were employed using the term "breast augmentation." These sites were then evaluated by each of three experienced plastic surgeons for their quality an...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Gordon JB,Barot LR,Fahey AL,Matthews MS

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed description of the anatomical relationships of the supraorbital nerve as it courses across the forehead and under the scalp cannot be found in most anatomy textbooks, and illustrations of the nerve beyond the superior orbital rim frequently misrepresent its course. Because the supraorbital nerve is a struct...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Knize DM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zygomatic ligaments (McGregor's patch) anchor the skin of the cheek to the inferior border of the zygoma just posterior to the origin of the zygomaticus minor muscle. The mandibular ligaments tether the overlying skin to the anterior mandible. Both these ligaments are obstacles to surgical maneuvers intended to ad...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Furnas DW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic infections affect 17 million people yearly, and approximately 550,000 people die each year from, or with, their chronic infections. Acute and chornic infection differences are well known to clinicians, but the role of bacteria in producing these clinical differences remains poorly understood. METHOD...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Wolcott R,Dowd S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparison with other regions of the trunk, defects located in the lumbosacral region are infrequent. However, these particular lesions sometimes present difficulties in reconstruction, arising from the quality of the surrounding tissue and the width of the defects. In this area, the skin adheres strongly to subcut...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Di Benedetto G,Bertani A,Pallua N

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mastectomy flap necrosis is one of the most common and significant complications in immediate expander-based breast reconstruction. Negative-pressure wound therapy is widely used for open wounds but is not commonly used for closed incisional wounds. However, the postoperative use of incisional negative-press...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kim DY,Park SJ,Bang SI,Mun GH,Pyon JK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The first aim of this study was to determine the rate of revision carpal tunnel release in five urban hospitals over a period of 14 years. The secondary aim was to assess what demographic, condition-related, and treatment-related factors are associated with revision carpal tunnel release. METHODS:Between 20...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Westenberg RF,Oflazoglu K,de Planque CA,Jupiter JB,Eberlin KR,Chen NC

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002, the author implemented a new two-stage approach, "delayed-immediate breast reconstruction," for patients who desire breast reconstruction and who are at an increased risk for conditions necessitating postmastectomy radiotherapy. There is increasing acceptance of this approach in clinical practice. T...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kronowitz SJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although nearly all medical students pursuing integrated plastic surgery residency participate in elective rotations away from their home medical school, the value and costs of these "away" rotations have not been well studied. METHODS:The authors surveyed all integrated plastic surgery program directors an...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Drolet BC,Brower JP,Lifchez SD,Janis JE,Liu PY

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conventional palatoplasty relies on extensive mucosal incisions and isolation of flaps on the palatine vessels to facilitate midline closure and velar reconstruction. This introduces substantial scarring, which has adverse effects on vascularity and growth. The authors have developed a minimally invasive pal...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Pan BS,Rapp SJ,Vu A,Uribe-Rivera A,Billmire DA,Gordon CB

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case demonstrates the use of the superficial musculoaponeurotic system for suspension in facial nerve paralysis. This approach allows access to the buccinator, which is plicated to the masseteric fascia to reduce intraoral redundancy. ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Balch CR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern breast reconstruction often involves microvascular reconstruction. The most common recipient vessels are the internal mammary artery and vein. Recently, there has been great focus on efficiency, but much of this emphasis has been directed to faster flap harvest or recovery protocols for expeditious di...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Haddock NT,Teotia SS

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsurgical procedures, although equipment- and labor-intensive, allow efficient treatment of selected soft-tissue, bone, and peripheral nerve defects. The precise surgical skills required and the high equipment and institutional costs have been deterrents to initiating programs in developing countries. Th...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Merrell JC,Tien NV,Son NT,An LN,Sellers D,Russell R,Manktelow R,Wei FC,Orgill DP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Living donation has become a medically and ethically accepted practice in solid organ transplantation. Published proceedings from the international kidney transplant community and from the Ethics Committee of The Transplantation Society articulated the general principles and specific recommendations for living donatio...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Pomahac B,Alhefzi M,Bueno EM,McDiarmid SV,Levin LS

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a free vascularized iliac bone graft has been successfully used for the reconstruction of large bone defects, there is a serious problem of how to repair in one stage patients having a large bone defect with a very wide skin defect. A free combined rectus abdominis musculocutaneous flap and vascularized iliac...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Koshima I,Soeda S,Nakayama Y,Ishii M,Harada S,Kaneko M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bariatric surgery for morbid obesity results in massive weight loss and improvement of health and quality of life. A downside of the major weight loss is the excess of overstretched skin, which may influence the patient's quality of life by causing functional and aesthetic problems. The purpose of the curren...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： van der Beek ESJ,Geenen R,de Heer FAG,van der Molen ABM,van Ramshorst B

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of performing vascularized musculoskeletal xenografts between mice and rats using immunosuppression. Vascularized musculoskeletal grafts were harvested from the hind limb of C57BL/6J (B6) mice, transplanted heterotopically into Lewis rats, and revascularized by mic...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Tanabe YN,Randolph MA,Shimizu A,Butler PE,Lee WP

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:De novo or rare transmitted mutations in the SMAD6 gene affect 7 percent of midline nonsyndromic synostosis patients. This study aimed to determine the neurocognitive sequelae of SMAD6 synostosis. METHODS:Nonsyndromic synostosis patients 6 years or older with SMAD6 mutations and non-SMAD6 nonsyndromic synos...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Wu RT,Timberlake AT,Abraham PF,Gabrick KS,Lu X,Peck CJ,Sawh-Martinez RF,Steinbacher DM,Alperovich MA,Persing JA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin-sparing mastectomy by definition describes the procedure of mastectomy, either simple or modified radical, with a minimum amount of skin excision. The surgical skin excision must: (1) include the nipple-areola complex, (2) include the biopsy site, and (3) allow for access to the axilla for possible dissection. In...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Toth BA,Lappert P

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most lesions of the upper extremity are common and benign, and many have questioned the need for routine pathologic evaluation of these specimens. The authors aim to examine the national use of routine pathologic examination of nonmalignant hand lesions to help guide health care policy and practice patterns....

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Cho HE,Kelley B,Zhong L,Chung KC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incisions made perpendicular to the hair follicles during anterior frontal hairline brow lifts or forehead shortening procedures help produce an inconspicuous forehead scar. The success of this "hidden" incision relies on the anteriorly directed frontal hairline follicles and their growth vector. The authors...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Mowlavi A,Majzoub RK,Cooney DS,Wilhelmi BJ,Guyuron B

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00