Online patient resources for breast reconstruction: an analysis of readability.

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：BACKGROUND:The timing of reconstruction following melanoma extirpation remains controversial, with some advocating definitive reconstruction only when the results of permanent pathologic evaluation are available. The authors evaluated oncologic safety and cost benefit of single-stage neoplasm extirpation with immediate...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Karanetz I,Stanley S,Knobel D,Smith BD,Bastidas N,Beg M,Kasabian AK,Tanna N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present their latest development of a strictly vertical retroauricular incision to minimize a sequela of a face lift, namely, a visible scar. The temporal preauricular vertical incision and the retroauricular vertical incision form two parallel arms of a U-shaped incision. Anteriorly, a downward rotation f...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Marchac D,Brady JA,Chiou P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of postoperative intense pulsed light therapy on patients who undergo bilateral eyelid surgery. METHODS:Patients presenting over a 3-month period for bilateral eyelid surgery were asked to participate in an institutional review board-approved study. Int...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Linkov G,Lam VB,Wulc AE

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although in modern medicine, patients' preferences are important, these have never been defined for characteristics of Dupuytren treatment. This study determines these patients' preferences using a discrete choice experiment. METHODS:A multicenter discrete choice experiment study was conducted among patient...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kan HJ,de Bekker-Grob EW,van Marion ES,van Oijen GW,van Nieuwenhoven CA,Zhou C,Hovius SER,Selles RW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:External volume expansion devices are effective for adipose tissue regeneration. However, the detailed mechanisms by which external volume expansion devices induce adipose tissue regeneration remain unclear. METHODS:An external volume expansion device was used to construct expanded prefabricated adipose tis...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Qin Z,Cai J,Zhou T,Yuan Y,Gao J,Dong Z

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Weight gain is common in breast cancer patients and increases the risk of recurrence and mortality. The authors assessed the impact of autologous breast reconstruction on body mass index patterns after diagnosis in mastectomy patients. METHODS:Women undergoing therapeutic mastectomy at the authors' institut...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Cho EH,Shammas RL,Glener AD,Greenup RA,Hwang ES,Hollenbeck ST

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on contemporary social psychological theory and research, the aesthetic appeal of one's physical appearance can have considerable influence on others--on social attraction, attitudes, attributions, and actions, which in turn can affect one's psychosocial experiences and development. From this perspective, the pr...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Cash TF,Horton CE

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented an unusual case of basal cell carcinoma that presented in a 76-year-old black woman. This is an atypical case in that it occurred in a black patient, and the incidence of basal cell carcinoma is low in black people. The lesion was located in the groin, which is an uncommon location for basal cell car...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Beckenstein MS,Windle BH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：LEARNING OBJECTIVES:After studying this article, the participant should: 1. Be able to define indications and timing for secondary cranioplasty. 2. Understand the surgical options for reconstructing the cranium and overlying soft-tissue defect including their advantages and disadvantages. 3. Be able to apply this knowl...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Baumeister S,Peek A,Friedman A,Levin LS,Marcus JR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2004, the senior author (S.L.S.) published an algorithm for the management of breast device infection and/or exposure. The purpose of this study was to build on the authors' prior experience by expanding the cohort of patients and to identify risk factors for failed breast device salvage and recurrent inf...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Spear SL,Seruya M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with craniofacial anomalies are at risk for social exclusion, bullying, and psychological symptoms, all of which are associated with poor developmental and health outcomes. The National Institutes of Health-developed Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System instruments may be useful ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Shapiro DN,Waljee J,Ranganathan K,Buchman S,Warschausky S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Historically, the structure of surgical programs discourages women interested in both surgery and motherhood from pursuing a surgical career, and women plastic surgeons have been more likely than men to have no children or to have fewer, later in life. Female plastic surgery trainees now constitute over one-...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Furnas HJ,Li AY,Garza RM,Johnson DJ,Bajaj AK,Kalliainen LK,Weston JS,Song DH,Chung KC,Rohrich RJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy as a risk factor for having a child with cleft lip/palate has been suggested by several epidemiologic studies. However, most of these studies contained small sample sizes, and a clear association between these two factors could not be established. The U.S. Natality database ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Chung KC,Kowalski CP,Kim HM,Buchman SR

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review 97 cases of SMCP, 79 of which were operated. The comparative results are presented. For those requiring surgery (i.e. those having hypernasality), it has been our experience that the use of a pharyngeal flap, alone or combined with a palatoplasty, is productive of better speech results than is a palatoplasty...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Porterfield HW,Mohler LR,Sandel A

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split-thickness nail bed grafting is the accepted method of treatment for injuries involving loss of nail bed tissue. The nail bed of the great toe may be used without donor-site morbidity, and nail bed grafting may be combined with other procedures for fingertip reconstruction. A case of fingertip avulsion injury wit...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Matsuba HM,Spear SL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-nine children with moderate-to-severe velopharyngeal incompetency were randomly assigned to either prosthetic or surgical palatal management. A classification for evaluating velopharyngeal incompetency was designed. The prosthetic speech appliance, when obtained and tolerated, corrected velopharyngeal incompete...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Marsh JL,Wray RC

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to adult cutaneous wounds, early fetal wounds heal scarlessly. Fetal rat skin transitions from scarless repair to healing, with scar formation between days 16.5 (E16) and 18.5 (E18) of gestation. Term gestation is 21.5 days. The composition of the extracellular matrix in fetal skin and wounds differs from ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Dang CM,Beanes SR,Lee H,Zhang X,Soo C,Ting K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A free skin graft about 12 cm in diameter transplanted after excision of a Bowen's carcinoma on the back totally survived for a long period on seroma and was confirmed to have revascularization from the host skin margin. Repeated evacuations of the fluid and subsequent pressure dressings failed to cause adherence of t...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Koyama H,Isshiki N,Noda R,Nishimura R

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reinfections following implant-based cranioplasty, in the setting of previous bone flap osteomyelitis, are common and associated with significant morbidity. The timing of reconstruction following initial osteomyelitic bone flap removal remains controversial; most advocate for prolonged time intervals of appr...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Lopez J,Zhong SS,Sankey EW,Swanson EW,Susarla H,Jusue-Torres I,Huang J,Brem H,Auwaerter PG,Gordon CR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of burns occurring in TRAM flaps utilized for breast reconstruction are presented in this study. These injuries resulted from exposure to thermal and/or solar radiation. We believe that the physiologic changes that result from flap elevation and transposition, mainly denervation, negate the autonomic protec...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Beckenstein MS,Beegle PH,Hartrampf CR Jr

更新日期：1997-05-01 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:Insufficient soft-tissue coverage following total knee arthroplasty jeopardizes prosthesis retention and may lead to significant complications. The aim of this study was to evaluate the natural history of total knee arthroplasty following flap reconstruction of soft-tissue defects. METHODS:A retrospective r...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kwiecien GJ,Lamaris G,Gharb BB,Murray T,Hendrickson MF,Zins JE,Isakov R

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:We describe 3 patients with the Pierre Robin Syndrome who developed severe problems of airway obstruction after having the cleft palate closed and a pharyngeal flap done simultaneously. We now believe that, even at a later age, pharyngeal flaps should be done in these patients only after a most careful assessment of t...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Jackson P,Whitaker LA,Randall P

更新日期：1976-08-01 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:Scholarly output has typically been measured by citation-based metrics such as the Hirsch index (h-index). The Altmetric Attention Score has emerged as a substitute to measure digital attention given to a project. This study aims to determine whether there is any correlation between h-index and the Altmetric...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Shiah E,Heiman AJ,Ricci JA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomic distribution and potential arterial flow patterns of the circumflex scapular artery were investigated by Microfil injection. These studies demonstrated that the circumflex scapular artery lies within the dorsal thoracic fascia, which plays a significant role in the circulation of the overlying skin and su...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Kim PS,Gottlieb JR,Harris GD,Nagle DJ,Lewis VL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the blockage of polymorphonuclear neutrophil endothelial adhesion by using a monoclonal antibody to the intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) ligand to prevent ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat skin flaps. A skin and subcutaneous tissue flap (3.0 cm x 4.5 cm) supplied by...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Tosa Y,Lee WP,Kollias N,Randolph MA,May JW Jr

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat model of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap was used in the present study to determine the effects of external beam radiation on myocutaneous flap histology and pathophysiology. A total of 57 adult Sprague-Dawley rats underwent a TRAM procedure. A pilot study with 17 animals was first...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Lin KY,Patterson JW,Simmons J,Long MD,Schultz RO,Amiss LR,Molloy JA,Kelly MD

更新日期：2001-04-15 00:00:00