Trends and Predictors of National Institutes of Health Funding to Plastic Surgery Residency Programs.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascularized composite allotransplantation is an emerging field of transplantation that provides a potential treatment for complex tissue defects after traumatic loss or tumor resection and for the repair of congenital abnormalities. However, vascularized composite allotransplantation recipients have suffere...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Hu CH,Lin CH,Chang NJ,Hu CW,Lin CH

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, Poly Implant Prothèse silicone breast implants were recalled from the European market. The authors studied 112 women and previously published data on rupture prevalence. Women are presenting with symptoms they feel may be a result of ruptured implants. The authors' aim was to study the clinical con...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Maijers MC,Niessen FB

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcomes of a consecutive series of 35 adults and adolescents judged to be skeletally mature (mean 18 years) who had unilateral cleft lip and palate and had undergone Le Fort I advancement fixed with miniplates were investigated. All patients had received grafts of autogenous iliac bone and were stabilized intraop...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Posnick JC,Dagys AP

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：LEARNING OBJECTIVES:After reading this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Describe biofilm pathogenesis as it relates to problem wounds. 2. Understand the preclinical and clinical evidence implicating biofilm in problem wounds. 3. Explain the diagnostic and treatment challenges that biofilms create for prob...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Barker JC,Khansa I,Gordillo GM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhinophyma is a disfiguring soft-tissue hypertrophy of the nose. It is an uncommon disease that primarily affects Caucasian men in the fifth to seventh decades of life. Nine cases from the authors' series and a comparison of results following various treatment modalities are presented. Eight of the patients were Cauca...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Redett RJ,Manson PN,Goldberg N,Girotto J,Spence RJ

更新日期：2001-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The coverage of defects of the Achilles tendon, malleoli, and heel remains a challenge to reconstructive surgeons. The distally based superficial sural artery island flap is vascularized by the median superficial sural artery, posterolateral septal perforators originating from the peroneal artery, neurovascular arteri...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yilmaz M,Karatas O,Barutcu A

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injectable bovine collagen has proven to be safe and effective for the treatment of contour defects for more than 20 years. After intradermal exposure to bovine collagen, the most commonly reported side effect is hypersensitivity (incidence of approximately 3 percent to test and approximately 1 to 2 percent to subsequ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Toman PD,Egbert BM,Thomas JA,DeLustro FA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify important sociodemographic factors affecting the utilization of immediate and early delayed postmastectomy breast reconstruction in the United States. Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, all cases of mastectomy-treated breast cancer that were ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Alderman AK,McMahon L Jr,Wilkins EG

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not prefilled breast implants retain their volume in packaging. METHODS:This study examined 32 Poly Implant Prosthesis prefilled textured saline breast implants. All of these implants were within the manufacturer's expiration date at the time of weighing...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Stevens WG,Hirsch EM,Stoker DA,Cohen R

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although reduction mammaplasty is a well-described technique for aesthetic purposes, there are few previous reports regarding its application and clinical outcome following conservative breast surgery reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to analyze the feasibility of the technique and its outcome fo...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Munhoz AM,Montag E,Arruda EG,Aldrighi C,Gemperli R,Aldrighi JM,Ferreira MC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One-hundred and four patients with fractures of the metacarpals and phalanges have been treated with rigid internal fixation over a 6-year period. Patients with both open and closed injuries had their fractures fixed by tension band wires, interosseous compression screws (lag screws), or plates and screws. The concept...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Jabaley ME,Freeland AE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Fibular osteotomy remains a challenging aspect of mandibular microsurgical reconstruction, dependent largely on surgeon experience, intraoperative judgment, and technical speed. Virtual surgical planning and stereolithographic modeling is a relatively new technique that can allow for reduction in the learnin...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Antony AK,Chen WF,Kolokythas A,Weimer KA,Cohen MN

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Midface reanimation in patients with chronic facial paralysis is not always possible with an ipsilateral or contralateral facial nerve innervating a free neuromuscular tissue transfer. Alternate use of nonfacial nerves is occasionally indicated but may potentially result in inadvertent motions. The goal of t...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Rozen S,Harrison B

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of aspirated fat for the correction of tissue defects is a common procedure in plastic surgery. The reported rates of fat cell survival vary greatly in the medical literature, and different techniques of harvesting, processing, and reinjecting the fat cells are claimed to be responsible for these differences...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Ramon Y,Shoshani O,Peled IJ,Gilhar A,Carmi N,Fodor L,Risin Y,Ullmann Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to compare two noninvasive techniques, laser Doppler and optical spectroscopy, for monitoring hemodynamic changes in skin flaps. Animal models for assessing these changes in microvascular free flaps and pedicle flaps were investigated. A 2 x 3-cm free flap model based on the epigastric ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Payette JR,Kohlenberg E,Leonardi L,Pabbies A,Kerr P,Liu KZ,Sowa MG

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing the techniques of biostereometric photography and current state-of-the-art computergraphics, topographic contourgrams have been generated in a series of patients with complex craniofacial malformations. These contourgrams are considered useful in diagnosis and treatment planning and as an aid in postoperativ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Sen Savara B,Miller SH,Demuth RJ,Kawamoto HK

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increasing number of women who undergo immediate two-stage tissue expander/implant breast reconstruction will require postmastectomy radiation therapy. An important variable is the timing of radiotherapy relative to surgery. The authors report their experience treating a large consecutive series of patien...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Ho AL,Bovill ES,Macadam SA,Tyldesley S,Giang J,Lennox PA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blasius was a famous teacher and surgeon. Apart from his own writings on surgery and his new methods for reconstructions, such as the replacement of nose, lips, and eyelids, some theses were also inspired by him. His main work is his three-volume Handbuch der Akiurgie, to which he added an excellent atlas, from which ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Hauben DJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle transplantation has become an indispensable tool to restore the smile in patients with long-standing or congenital facial paralysis. However, little is known of the effect of this surgical intervention on craniofacial growth and development or of the adaptation of the transplant to its recipient site under circ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Sinsel NK,Guelinckx PJ,Opdebeeck H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Upper arm deformities secondary to massive weight loss or senile elastosis have led to an increased demand for aesthetic contouring procedures such as brachioplasty. METHODS:The records of all patients who underwent a brachioplasty procedure from a multipractice medical center were reviewed. Outcomes measur...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Zomerlei TA,Neaman KC,Armstrong SD,Aitken ME,Cullen WT,Ford RD,Renucci JD,VanderWoude DL

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our procedure, in which the inverted nipple was suspended using autogenous tendon grafts, was easy to perform, and it was not necessary to cut the lactiferous ducts. There was no deformity of the nipple or areola after this procedure, and the surgical scars were inconspicuous. Three patients who were followed up for o...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kurihara K,Maezawa N,Yanagawa H,Imai T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this primer is to provide the clinical surgeon with a survey overview of the basic biochemistry of collagen and the methods and rationale of collagen cross-linking in the processing and preparation of bioprosthetics for surgical implantation. The author highlights the critical biologic factors, such as ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Dunn RM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wound complications after perineal and groin obliterative procedures are a significant cause of morbidity, particularly following chemoradiation therapy. Vertical and, increasingly, oblique rectus abdominis myocutaneous flaps have been used to fill potential dead space and bring healthy, vascularized tissue ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Combs PD,Sousa JD,Louie O,Said HK,Neligan PC,Mathes DW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Flaps based on the ulnar artery have never gained the same popularity as the radial forearm flap, despite several potential advantages. In this article, the authors describe a true ulnar artery perforator flap with perforator mapping. METHODS:Thirty-eight consecutive patients who underwent ulnar artery perf...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yu P,Chang EI,Selber JC,Hanasono MM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dexmedetomidine is an alpha2-agonist anesthetic with several properties that are advantageous in aesthetic facial surgery. By attenuating sympathetic nervous system activity, it induces sedation and analgesia while lowering blood pressure and preventing pain-induced hemodynamic fluctuations. It spares the re...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Taghinia AH,Shapiro FE,Slavin SA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a rat model designed to simulate clinical angiography, preoperative angiography had no effect on free-flap survival. Only when a large dose of RCM was delivered directly into a surgically isolated circulation did significant free-flap loss ensue. ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yaremchuk MJ,Bartlett SP,Sedacca T,May JW Jr

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:"Disruptive physician" is a term appearing more frequently in many hospital bylaws. It has significant negative implications that can lead to loss of privileges for plastic surgeons. METHODS:Exploring the various definitions of disruptive physician reveals palpable differences between those of the Joint Com...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Zbar RIS,Taylor LD,Canady JW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several structures involved in columellaplasty, and all affect the support and shape of the tip, the columella, and the upper lip. The present paper considers only the problem of the deformities of the maxillary spine and its lower extension over the midline, causing broadening and asymmetrical development o...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Stoksted P,Gutierrez C

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative photography has the potential to raise costs and introduce possible contamination but is essential for documentation in plastic surgery. The authors evaluate their use of a waterproof camera immersed in povidone-iodine for taking intraoperative photographs in an efficient manner. A waterproof camera is ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Purnell CA,Alkureishi LWT,Koranda C,Patel PK

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mimic muscles are arranged in four layers regarding their origins, and these four layers should be considered when muscle tissue is added or lifted. All mimic muscles are built up by parallel fibers. Mean values of length, width, and thickness of the three lip elevators have been determined. These data might be of imp...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Freilinger G,Gruber H,Happak W,Pechmann U

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00