A simple instrument for achieving accurate alignment and pre-insertion stability with mandibular bone plates.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient-reported lower satisfaction with the abdomen preoperatively is a strong predictor of undergoing DIEP flap surgery. The authors evaluated physical well-being of the abdomen before and after flap-based breast reconstruction to determine potential predictors for decreased postoperative abdominal well-be...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Stone JP,Bello RJ,Siotos C,Meyer ML,Sebai ME,Payne RM,Manahan MA,Cooney DS,Sacks JM,Broderick KP,Cooney CM,Rosson GD

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary mucinous carcinoma of the skin is a slow-growing tumor with a high recurrence rate. To improve the recognition of the clinical entity, two cases of this tumor were reported and were investigated histopathologically and histochemically. Both patients showed no evidence of metastatic mucinous adenocarcinoma int ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Abe S,Matsumoto Y,Fujita T

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active mobilization of repaired flexor tendons requires sufficient suture strength. This study was designed to investigate the suitability of four newly developed and comparatively strong tendon sutures for flexor tendon repair with active digital mobilization. Fifty fresh flexor digitorum profundus tendons were rando...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Tang JB,Gu YT,Rice K,Chen F,Pan CZ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the overall complication rates associated with brachioplasty, a retrospective review was performed of all brachioplasty procedures performed at the authors' institution over a 16-year period. METHODS:Hospital charts were reviewed for patient demographics. Ten fresh frozen cadaveric arm dissecti...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Knoetgen J 3rd,Moran SL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemia-reperfusion injury is the propagation of injury following reintroduction of oxygen to previously ischemic tissue. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether hydrogen sulfide provides protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury in enteric tissue. METHODS:In vitro (enterocyte anoxia-normoxi...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Henderson PW,Weinstein AL,Sung J,Singh SP,Nagineni V,Spector JA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes impairs the ability of tissue to respond adequately to ischemia. The underlying mechanisms contributing to this impaired response remain unknown. Because increases in apoptosis have been linked to a spectrum of diabetic complications, the authors examined whether programmed cell death is involved in...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Jazayeri L,Callaghan MJ,Grogan RH,Hamou CD,Thanik V,Ingraham CR,Capell BC,Pelo CR,Gurtner GC

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated where leprosy affects the posterior tibial nerve and whether neurolysis is beneficial. Nine patients with bilateral posterior tibial leprous neuropathy with no sensorimotor recovery were studied. Preoperative sensory-muscle and nerve conduction velocity testing revealed the tarsal tunnel to be ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Richard B,Khatri B,Knolle E,Lucas S,Turkof E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard photographic technique in plastic surgery is an important topic that has been stressed in the discipline over the past several years. Clinical photographs should always be taken with the same camera lens, lens setting, lighting, film, and patient position to ensure reproducibility and to enable valid pre- and...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： DiBernardo BE,Adams RL,Krause J,Fiorillo MA,Gheradini G

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of intermediate- and long-term results of surgical treatment of metopic synostosis is lacking. We therefore retrospectively studied 23 patients with metopic synostosis (14 males, 9 females) who have been followed from 3 months to 8.1 years (mean 42.5 months) after operation. Age at first operation ranged from...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Cohen SR,Maher H,Wagner JD,Dauser RC,Newman MH,Muraszko KM

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although surgical release and reconstruction have been used extensively to treat severe postburn knee flexion contractures, the degree of correction is sometimes unsatisfactory, and the procedure is not exempt from significant complications. Based on the principle of slow, gradual external fixation distraction, we hav...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Barquet A,Suero C,Cortés O,López L

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle biopsy specimens taken from the upper lip and perialar area during the time of secondary lip revision and studied by histochemical techniques demonstrate persistent connective-tissue and muscle abnormalities even at a distance from the cleft margins. Some of these changes are consistent with surgically induced ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Schendel SA,Pearl RM,De Armond SJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary surgical correction of the cleft lip nasal deformity is routinely performed at the Craniofacial Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. Over time, however, there is a tendency for the lower lateral cartilage to retain its memory and, subsequently, recreate the preoperative nasal deformity. Therefore, it is cur...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yeow VK,Chen PK,Chen YR,Noordhoff SM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell-seeded biomaterial scaffolds have been proposed as a future option for reconstruction of bone tissue. The ability to generate larger, functional volumes of bone has been a challenge that may be addressed through the use of perfusion bioreactors. In this study, the authors investigated use of a tubular p...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Gandhi JK,Kao SW,Roux BM,Rodriguez RA,Tang SJ,Fisher JP,Cheng MH,Brey EM

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A distally based fasciocutaneous flap for heel coverage is reported. Its blood supply depends on distal septocutaneous perforators interconnected with the suprafascial plexus. A "turn-down" transposition and distal deepithelialization were utilized to avoid kinking of the pedicle. After a 1-year follow-up, it has prov...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Carriquiry CE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of glucose and lactate within skin flaps was determined in full-thickness guinea pig skin (excluding the panniculus carnosus). The distal end of the flaps had a low glucose content (less than 50 percent of normal) but high lactate level (2 to 3 times normal) during the 3 days after flap elevation. Pro...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Hoopes JE,Im MJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A laboratory approach to measuring neurologic impairment has been developed that is applicable to systemic disease as well as localized nerve injury. This approach compares individual parameters of the experimental rat hind footprint (walking track) with weight- and sex-matched control track parameters; classic mathem...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Dellon ES,Dellon AL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Free tissue transfer has not been fully adopted as the primary mode of treating foot and ankle defects in potentially indicated patients, partly because of the lack of sizable vessels and the potential in the long term of differential growth in the flap and the recipient site. Also lacking are long-term outc...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Lin CH,Mardini S,Wei FC,Lin YT,Chen CT

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acellular dermal matrix is used in most postmastectomy implant-based breast reconstructions in the United States. It is believed to be safe, despite a slightly increased complication rate. Although never established in a unifying study, the primary advantage of acellular dermal matrix is believed to be an en...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： DeLong MR,Tandon VJ,Farajzadeh M,Berlin NL,MacEachern MP,Rudkin GH,Da Lio AL,Cederna PS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a phenomenon that is integral to development and cellular homeostasis. In the last decade, many of the essential molecules and pathways that control this phenomenon have been elucidated. Because apoptosis is involved in almost all physiologic and pathologic processes, the unders...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Gastman BR,Futrell JW,Manders EK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Free sensate thoracodorsal artery perforator flaps that include the posterior divisions of the lateral cutaneous branches of the intercostal nerves have been described. The authors used preoperative color Doppler sonography to identify the nerves and demonstrate its clinical value. METHODS:Fourteen free sen...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Lin CT,Yang KC,Hsu KC,Liu WC,Chen JS,Chen LW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to determine if there is a relationship between a critical quantity of bacteria and infection in complex extremity wounds, and (2) to compare the positive and negative predictive values, sensitivities, and specificities of the following laboratory and clinical tests of potent...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Breidenbach WC,Trager S

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an adult who developed primary malignant melanoma arising in association with residual nevus cells in the pectoralis muscle under an intact skin graft 13 years following the partial excision of a giant congenital nevocellular nevus (GCNN). The case serves to emphasize the malignant potential of GCNN, for whi...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Rhodes AR,Wood WC,Sober AJ,Mihm MC Jr

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described in which a direct approach to the underlying pathology of the inverted nipple is undertaken. The inverted nipple is raised as desired by freeing it from the surrounding tissue by vertical and horizontal undermining and then is stabilized by purse-string suture. It can be performed as an office...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Hauben DJ,Mahler D

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lymph system plays important roles in maintaining fluid balances, the immune system, and lipid metabolism. After tissue replantation or transfer, some cases suffer long-lasting edema or lymphedema caused by interruption of main lymph flows; however, this mechanism has yet to be clarified. METHODS:The me...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yamamoto T,Iida T,Yoshimatsu H,Fuse Y,Hayashi A,Yamamoto N

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of an 18-year-old female undergoing routine reduction mammaplasty in whom bilateral diffuse intraductal cribriform breast carcinoma was reported upon review of the surgical specimen. This highlights the importance not only of sending specimens for pathologic examination, but also of marking the spec...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Dinner MI,Artz JS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The umbilicus offers no functional importance to the adult human but remains a key aesthetic landmark of the anterior abdominal wall, and its absence can be a cause for concern in aesthetic and reconstructive patients. Umbilical reconstruction or transposition for abdominoplasty and abdominally based flap operations i...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Haddock NT,Kelling JA,Teotia SS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstruction of shoulder stability and movement in cases with complete paralysis of the brachial plexus was performed to improve the outcomes for universal function of prehension after double free-muscle transfer (Doi's procedure). In cases in which the C5 or C6 nerve root was available as a donor, neurotization of ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Doi K,Hattori Y,Ikeda K,Dhawan V

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of normovolemic hemodilution on skin flap survival are studied in a recently developed skin-flap model (homozygous hairless mouse ear) in which nutritional capillary flow is monitored directly by means of intravital microscopy from the time of flap creation throughout the establishment of necrosis. Two dil...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Barker JH,Hammersen F,Galla TJ,Bondàr I,Zeller P,Menger MD,Messmer K

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) is an uncommon neoplasia occurring in women with either cosmetic or reconstructive breast implants. The actual knowledge about BIA-ALCL deriving from the literature presents several limits, and it remains difficult to make inferences about BIA-ALCL ep...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Nava MB,Adams WP Jr,Botti G,Campanale A,Catanuto G,Clemens MW,Del Vecchio DA,De Vita R,Di Napoli A,Hall-Findlay E,Hammond D,Heden P,Mallucci P,Martin Del Yerro JL,Muti E,Rancati A,Randquist C,Salgarello M,Stan C,Roc

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular malformations frequently enlarge during adolescence, suggesting that hormones may be involved. The purpose of this study was to determine whether pubertal hormone receptors are present in vascular malformations and whether they differ from normal tissue. METHODS:Tissue specimens (arteriovenous malf...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kulungowski AM,Hassanein AH,Nosé V,Fishman SJ,Mulliken JB,Upton J,Zurakowski D,DiVasta AD,Greene AK

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00