Experience of an orthoplastic limb salvage team after the Haiti earthquake: analysis of caseload and early outcomes.

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed 119 consecutive patients who underwent cleft palate repair at the Mayo Clinic to determine the incidence of postoperative fistula formation, to assess possible contributing factors, and to review the methods of surgical management. Fistulas of the secondary palate were included, but nasal-a...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Emory RE Jr,Clay RP,Bite U,Jackson IT

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a modified mattress suture technique in septal anterior deviation correction and to compare it with the Hinderer technique. This was a randomized, controlled, single-blind clinical trial. Fifty patients with anterior septal deviation were assigned to one of two...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Calderón-Cuéllar LT,Trujillo-Hernández B,Vásquez C,Padilla-Acero J,Cisneros-Preciado H

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:Orthotopic cartilage transplants are performed in the course of numerous rhinosurgical operations. Precondition of a permanent success of the operation is preservation of vitality of the transplanted cartilage. Although numerous study results of heterotopic cartilage transplants exist, corresponding examinations in or...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Gubisch W,Greulich M,Donath K

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new axial flap is described for reconstruction of soft-tissue defects of the nose, including the supratip and columella. The blood supply to this flap originates from the lateral nasal branch of the angular artery adjacent to the nasolabial fold. This flap was used in seven patients between 1989 and 1994, and there ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Maruyama Y,Iwahira Y

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale is a promising new method incorporating observer and patient ratings in evaluating burn scars. The authors compared this tool to the Vancouver Scar Scale in a cohort of women with linear scars from breast cancer surgery. METHODS:Twenty women with newly diagnose...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Truong PT,Lee JC,Soer B,Gaul CA,Olivotto IA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 1.5 x 6 cm caudally based rat dorsal pedicled flaps, the effect of isoxsuprine on skin flap survival was studied. The results showed isoxsuprine to have no augmentation effect on the survival of random pattern flaps. ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Sasaki A,Harii K

更新日期：1980-07-01 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:Facial contour augmentation is an entity often encountered by reconstructive surgeons. To date, very different autologous tissues such as fat, dermofat, dermal fascia, muscle, cartilage, and bone in the manner of grafts or flaps according to the requirements of the defect have been used for facial augmentati...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Tan O,Atik B,Parmaksizoglu D

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nipple reconstruction by dermal-epidermal advancement flaps from the latissimus dorsi skin island was performed in 10 consecutive patients. There was no tissue loss and the nipples are still prominent 16 months after operation. The technique avoids further donor-site distortion and benefits from the use of available t...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Barton FE Jr

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast implant rupture is an important complication of augmented and reconstructed breasts. Although several techniques such as mammography, xeromammography, ultrasound, thermography, and computed tomographic (CT) scanning have been proven to be useful to detect implant rupture, they have several disadvantages and lac...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Ahn CY,Shaw WW,Narayanan K,Gorczyca DP,Sinha S,Debruhl ND,Bassett LW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast asymmetry is commonly accompanied by tuberous deformity. To date, no study has reported the incidence of this breast deformity in the presence of asymmetry. A retrospective analysis of standard preoperative photographs was performed on 375 consecutive female patients presenting for mammaplasty over a ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： DeLuca-Pytell DM,Piazza RC,Holding JC,Snyder N,Hunsicker LM,Phillips LG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photoaging is generally treated by ablative procedures that injure the epidermis and basal membrane and lead to fibrosis of the papillary dermis. Damaging the epidermis significantly can cause potential adverse effects such as dyspigmentation. It was recently shown in clinical trials that percutaneous collag...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Aust MC,Reimers K,Repenning C,Stahl F,Jahn S,Guggenheim M,Schwaiger N,Gohritz A,Vogt PM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies comparing similar and sizable numbers of deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) and pedicled transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap reconstructions are lacking. The authors hoped to determine whether the DIEP flap has advantages over the pedicled TRAM flap for breast reconstruct...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Garvey PB,Buchel EW,Pockaj BA,Casey WJ 3rd,Gray RJ,Hernández JL,Samson TD

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been relatively few articles in the English language on secondary Middle Eastern rhinoplasty. This article analyzes the cause and treatment of secondary Middle Eastern rhinoplasty. METHODS:A prospective study of 40 consecutive female secondary Middle Eastern rhinoplasty patients was completed. R...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Daniel RK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toe-to-hand transfer was performed in 28 patients, involving 33 fingers, using microvascular technique. Of this number, 26 patients (31 fingers) had experienced trauma, and the remaining 2 patients (2 fingers) had a congenital deformity. The toew used for grafting were the great toe (1), the second tow (30), and thir...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Yoshimura M

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The teres major can be seen as an additional head of the latissimus dorsi muscle for three-dimensional movement of the arm. It gained importance in pedicled muscle transfers for the treatment of plexus palsies and shoulder instability. Its supplying vessels belong to the subscapular system. According to the ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Giessler GA,Doll S,Germann G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular malformations are congenital anomalies of the vascular system. Intralesional bleomycin injections are commonly used to treat vascular malformations. However, pulmonary fibrosis could potentially be a severe complication, known from systemic bleomycin therapy for malignancies. In this study, the auth...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Horbach SER,Rigter IM,Smitt JHS,Reekers JA,Spuls PI,van der Horst CMAM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meniscus of serosanguineous fluid may persist for weeks at the inferior pole of the periprosthetic space after submuscular augmentation mammaplasty. Subsequent tissue accommodation may allow the prosthesis to become displaced into the space kept patent by the fluid meniscus. Implant malpositions of this etiology can...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Brink RR

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The median facial dysplasia group of patients is a unique, distinct, definable group characterized by mid-line facial deficiencies in the presence of a unilateral or bilateral cleft lip with or without cleft palate and without clinically detectable anomalies of the brain. This group of patients comprised 2 percent of ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Noordhoff MS,Huang CS,Lo LJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent controversy encountered with silicone breast implants has increased the use of autogenous tissue for breast reconstruction following mastectomy. Surveillance of patients who have undergone autogenous tissue reconstruction is important in the evaluation of recurrent or new cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Ahn CY,Narayanan K,Gorczyca DP,DeBruhl ND,Shaw WW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a series of five patients with quadrilateral space syndrome. All patients had the diagnosis made on the basis of (1) tenderness over the quadrilateral space, (2) paresthesia over the lateral shoulder and upper posterior arm, and (3) deltoid weakness associated with decreased shoulder abduction. A history of...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Francel TJ,Dellon AL,Campbell JN

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An acellular dermal matrix will typically incorporate, in time, with the overlying mastectomy skin flap. This remodeling process may be adversely impacted in patients who require chemotherapy and radiation, which influence neovascularization and cellular proliferation. METHODS:Multiple biopsy specimens were...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Myckatyn TM,Cavallo JA,Sharma K,Gangopadhyay N,Dudas JR,Roma AA,Baalman S,Tenenbaum MM,Matthews BD,Deeken CR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Capsular contracture is one of the most common complications associated with silicone breast implants. The surface of the implant is one of the factors often associated with the occurrence of capsular contracture. In this study, the authors evaluated the differences in morphologic and molecular characteristi...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Vieira VJ,d'Acampora AJ,Marcos ABW,Di Giunta G,de Vasconcellos ZAA,Bins-Ely J,d'Eça Neves R,Figueiredo CP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used this technique in two patients. One had early sternal dehiscence with presternal infection, and the other had late sternal nonunion. Uncomplicated sternal union was achieved in both patients. The cables were nonpalpable in both patients, but they were removed in one patient at that patient's request. This...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Eich BS,Heinz TR

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the reconstructive plastic surgeon, knowledge of the molecular biology underlying membranous fracture healing is becoming increasingly vital. Understanding the complex patterns of gene expression manifested during the course of membranous fracture repair will be crucial to designing therapies that augment poor fra...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Spector JA,Luchs JS,Mehrara BJ,Greenwald JA,Smith LP,Longaker MT

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal skin and soft tissue management in complex open abdominal wall reconstruction is an integral element of the operation to achieve optimal outcomes. Failure to provide stable, well-vascularized soft tissue coverage over the hernia repair can jeopardize the reconstruction through association with nonhealing wound...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Khansa I,Janis JE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ischemia tolerance of free-muscle flaps was investigated in the rat by orthotopic and syngeneic transplantation of muscle flaps measuring 4 x 2.5 cm. The effects of ischemia with a maximal duration of 7 hours on the raised flaps and of anoxia caused by occlusion of the flap vessels were studied for the first time ...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Wolff KD,Stiller D

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Penile inversion vaginoplasty is considered to be the gold standard for gender reassignment surgery in transgender women. The use of additional full-thickness skin graft as neovaginal lining is controversial. Some believe that having extra penile skin for the vulva gives better aesthetic results. Others beli...

journal_title：Plastic and reconstructive surgery

authors： Buncamper ME,van der Sluis WB,de Vries M,Witte BI,Bouman MB,Mullender MG

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00