Evaluation of 389 patients following free-flap lower extremity reconstruction with respect to secondary refinement procedures.

abstract：:Biosynthetic guides can be an alternative to nerve grafts for reconstructing severely injured peripheral nerves. The aim of this study was to evaluate the regenerative capability of chitosan tubes to bridge critical nerve gaps (15 mm long) in the rat sciatic nerve compared with silicone (SIL) tubes and nerve autograft...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Gonzalez-Perez F,Cobianchi S,Geuna S,Barwig C,Freier T,Udina E,Navarro X

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Purpose of the article is to present the use of the scapular tip free flap (STFF) for the reconstruction of oromandibular defects. PATIENTS:Eleven patients who underwent oromandibular reconstruction with STFF were retrospectively evaluated with regards to form and function assessing mouth opening, dietary inta...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Bianchi B,Ferri A,Ferrari S,Copelli C,Perlangeli G,Leporati M,Ferri T,Sesenna E

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between contractile function recovery and changes of acetylcholine receptors (AChR) in a transferred muscle flap following reinnervation. Orthotopic transfer of the gracilis muscle flap with repair of its nerve was performed bilaterally in 48 rats. The rats were...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Zhang Y,Liu A,Zhang W,Jiang H,Cai Z

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstruction of the foot using microvascular flaps has been widely performed in the last 15 years but the choice of flap to repair some areas in the foot remains controversial. We present a series of 128 free flaps to the foot performed during the period of 1975-1990. One hundred and seventeen had a successful outco...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Ferreira MC,Besteiro JM,Monteiro Júnior AA,Zumiotti A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstruction of defects measuring approximately two-thirds of the lower lip width is traditionally reconstructed utilizing loco-regional flap utilizing lip and cheek tissues. This often results in microstomia and unsatisfactory aesthetic outcome. This may hinder the psychosocial aspect of a recovering cancer survivo...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Hsieh WC,Tee R,Chang KP,Huang JJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In the last years, limb salvage has become the gold standard treatment over amputation. Today, 90% of extremity osteogenic sarcomas can be treated with limb salvage surgery. However, these reconstructions are not exempt from complications. Massive allografts have been associated to high risk of nonunion (1...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Barastegui D,Gallardo-Calero I,Rodriguez-Carunchio L,Barrera-Ochoa S,Knorr J,Rivas-Nicolls D,Soldado F

更新日期：2020-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report on the anatomical study of 34 cadaveric forearms with red latex injection and the clinical application of this study to 11 cases of microsurgical second dorsal metacarpal artery (SDMA) flaps. There were 8 cutaneous cases and 3 tenocutaneous cases using SDMA flaps for distal finger reconstructi...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Yu GR,Yuan F,Chang SM,Zhang F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicone rubber (polydimethyl siloxane) tubes are used clinically in peripheral nerve reconstruction. A disadvantage of this procedure is that the material often has to be removed owing to its mechanical properties. The aim of our study was to investigate the healing of reconstructed sensory nerves tubulized by silico...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Heijke GC,Klopper PJ,Baljet B,van Doorn IB

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a new technique of end-to-side microvascular anastomosis in a rat carotid artery model, employing a milliwatt CO2 laser. Both carotid arteries were isolated and approximated in an end-to-side fashion by the placement of four 10-0 nylon stay sutures. The milliwatt CO2 laser was used to effect vessel...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Sartorius CJ,Shapiro SA,Campbell RL,Klatte EC,Clark SA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free groin flap donor skin is unequaled in generous skin supply and inconspicuousness. We reliably utilize this region by taking advantage of the dual blood supply from superficial circumlex iliac (SCIA) and superficial inferior epigastric (SIEA) arteries and name the flap "Free SCIA/SIEA skin flap." The arterial pedi...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Aydin MA,Nasir S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of wrapping bioabsorbable nerve conduit around primary suture repair on motor nerve regeneration in a rat model. Forty rats were randomly divided into two experimental groups according to the type of repair of the rat sciatic nerve: group I had primary suture repair...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Lee JY,Parisi TJ,Friedrich PF,Bishop AT,Shin AY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the history of attempts to study peripheral nerve regeneration, focusing upon pharmacologic agents that may prove to be useful clinically. In particular, forskolin is described as a model for such an agent, and its mechanism of action, as a stimulator of the cyclic AMP second messenger system, is de...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Klein HW,Kilmer S,Carlsen RC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature on the reconstruction of the proximal femur in skeletally immature patients with the use of an epiphyseal transplant is scarce and with variable results depending on the indication. We report successful outcomes using a modified vascularized fibular epiphyseal transplant in a 4-year-old boy with an oncologi...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Soldado F,Fontecha CG,Haddad S,Corona P,Collado D,Llusá M,Rego P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite tissue allografts (CTAs) contain their own reservoir of vascularized bone marrow, offering novel aspects for the induction of donor-specific tolerance. Additionally, the manipulation of recipient dendritic cells, pulsed with donor allopeptide, has been shown to engender solid organ allograft survival. To exp...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Nguyen VT,Taieb A,Sacks JM,Unadkat JV,Clavijo JA,Kim H,Feili-Hariri M,Lee WP

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We describe a new dual neurorrhaphy method for a free abdominal-based flap and compare sensory recovery with this novel technique to that with conventional neurorrhaphy technique for breast reconstruction. METHODS:70 breast cancer patients underwent muscle sparing innervated transversal rectus abdominis myo...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Puonti HK,Jääskeläinen SK,Hallikainen HK,Partanen TA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The creation of a distal arteriovenous fistula for haemodialysis is made easier by using preventive haemostasis with an inflatable tourniquet. Preventive haemostasis reduces the duration of the surgery and reduces the arterial spasm provoked by the dissection. When microsurgical techniques and preventive haemostasis a...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Bourquelot PD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of peripheral nerve allograft pretreatment utilizing cold storage (5 degrees C in the University of Wisconsin Cold Storage Solution) or freeze-thawing to prevent rejection was investigated. Regeneration across cold-stored (3 or 5 weeks) or freeze-thawed (FT), 3.0-cm sciatic nerve allografts were compar...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Evans PJ,MacKinnon SE,Midha R,Wade JA,Hunter DA,Nakao Y,Hare GM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the results after implantation of ovarian follicles by various modes in a total of 82 cases. One or five ovarian follicles were implanted into spleens in castrated female rats. In 20 cases among these, each five follicles were implanted into native and transplanted spleens after spleen transplantation (dou...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Hong IC,Lee S,Yoo CH,Nam S,Bai S,Kim K,Pivetti CD,Niewiadomski ST,Wolf P,Gittes RF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical settings, combined heart and kidney transplantation results in a lower incidence of cardiac graft and renal graft rejection as compared to isolated heart and kidney transplantation. To study the phenomenon in an experimental setting, we developed a model of combined heart and kidney transplantation in mice...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Wang M,Bai J,Baumann M,Heemann U

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of tension at the site of coaptation on recovery of sciatic nerve function after neurorrhaphy were studied by evaluating walking-track measurements, nerve conduction velocity measurements, histomorphometry, and electron probe X-ray microanalysis. Forty adult male Lewis rats underwent right sciatic nerve (S...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Maeda T,Hori S,Sasaki S,Maruo S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nerve regeneration involves multiple processes, which enhance blood supply that can be promoted by growth factors. Currently, tools are lacking to visualize the vascularization patterns in transplanted nerves in vivo. The purpose of this study was to describe three-dimensional visualization of the vascular...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Saffari TM,Mathot F,Bishop AT,Shin AY

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lumbar spines of twenty-one dogs were used as an experimental model. The animals were divided into three groups. In the first group, selective damage to the perimeningeal blood vessels was induced and the resultant hematoma was left untouched in the spinal canal. In the second group, the posterior longitudinal lig...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Touliatos AS,Soucacos PN,Beris AE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that hepatic arterial flow in heterotopic partial liver transplants is necessary to ensure graft survival and regenerative capacity. This report presents findings in a syngeneic rat strain (Lewis) that partial liver transplants can be successfully heterotopically transplanted in the lon...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Yoo CH,Wang Y,Ha J,Mao L,Kim S,Tarin T,Wolf P,Youngkin TP,Brems JJ,Gittes RF,D'Silva M,Lee S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular microanastomosis of vessels that presents marked discrepancy in size can be performed without difficulty by making a longitudinal incision of the end of the smallest vessel, forming a kind of "spatula," and joined to the vessel of greater diameter. ...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Fossati E,Asurey N,Irigaray A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral aspergillosis infection is a rare disease in children that carries extremely high morbidity and mortality. Although occurring most commonly in the immunosuppressed patient, cerebral aspergillosis infection has been reported after trauma or neurosurgical procedures. Amphotericin B is the main medical therapy f...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Antony AK,Hong RW,Amieva M,Taekman MS,Huhn SL,Karanas YL

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When pharyngoesophagectomy is performed in conjunction with anterior mediastinal tracheostomy, reconstructing both the trachea and alimentary tract is extremely difficult. We developed a novel 1-stage reconstructive procedure using a single free jejunal flap containing multiple vascular pedicles to decrease ...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Kubo T,Kurita T,Tashima H,Seike S,Fujii T,Yano M,Yamasaki M,Doki Y,Hosokawa K

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present herein a case of massive arterial thrombosis of a free rectus abdominal musculocutaneous flap used for reconstructive surgery of gingival carcinoma that could not be rescued. A 54-year-old woman underwent the operation. She had experienced two miscarriages in her 20s, but medical history was otherwise uneve...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Asai E,Okouchi M,Momiyama M,Kajikawa A,Ueda K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circumferential choledochoplasties with vascular grafts have rarely been attempted either experimentally or in clinical practice. In this study, choledochoplasties using autologous venous and arterial grafts were performed in rats. Sixty-four rats were randomly selected into five treatment groups: A) venous interposit...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Flati G,Flati D,Porowska B,Rossi G,Francavilla S,Santoro E,Carboni M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic sympathetic denervation leads to the development of supersentivity to adrenergic agents. Free flap surgery results in the disruption of the autonomic nerve fibers running along the anastomosed vessels. We therefore investigated the early effect of surgical sympathectomy on the reactivity of cutaneous microcirc...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Lecoq JP,Joris JL,Nelissen XP,Lamy ML,Heymans OY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial volar amputations of the entire thumb pulp require soft tissue coverage that provides not only padding and protection for exposed bone and tendons, but also restoration of discriminative sensation. A modification of the radial sensory innervated cross finger flap from index to thumb is described, which include...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Hastings H 2nd

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00