A new technique for microvascular sleeve anastomosis.

abstract：:This experimental study was performed to evaluate the efficacy of end-to-side coaptation between the musculocutaneous nerve and the phrenic nerve for brachial plexus injuries with nerve-root avulsions. In an experimental rabbit model, neurotization of the musculocutaneous nerve with the phrenic nerve was compared usin...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Stamatoukou A,Papadogeorgou E,Zhang Z,Pavlakis K,Zoubos AB,Soucacos PN

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In September 1998, a surgical team in Lyon, France, performed the first successful hand transplant. After this historic event, in January 1999, the University of Louisville performed the first hand transplant in the United States. These events sparked interest and debate concerning the justification of performing limb...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Kann BR,Furnas DW,Hewitt CW

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods of peripheral nerve repair are to rejoin cut nerve stumps directly or to bridge large gaps with autologous nerve grafts. In both cases the surface of nerve stump endings is typically cut perpendicularly to the long axis of the nerve. The outcome of such operations, however, is still not satisfactory. I...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Kotulska K,Marcol W,Larysz-Brysz M,Tendera Z,Malinowska-Kołodziej I,Slusarczyk W,Jedrzejowska-Szypułka H,Lewin-Kowalik J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Venous congestion is the most common vascular complication of the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flaps. Adding a second venous drainage by anastomosing a flap vein and a recipient vein (super-drainage) is considered the solution of choice. Evidence to support this procedure, had not yet ...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Pignatti M,Pinto V,Giorgini FA,Lozano Miralles ME,Cannamela G,D'Arpa S,Cipriani R,De Santis G

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the devices for large-caliber vessel (>2-mm diameter) anastomosis are available, there are no devices for performing anastomosis of small-caliber vessels. We designed a hooked device composed of a bioabsorbable polymer for sutureless anastomosis of small-caliber vessels. The efficacy of this device was evalua...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Ueda K,Mukai T,Ichinose S,Koyama Y,Takakuda K

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Initiation of training in basic microsurgical suturing technique usually involves placing sutures on incisions made on latex sheets, and then progressing to a live anastomosis in a rat model. A straight incision resembles a skin incision and does not mechanically simulate vessel wall suturing, and various modification...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Lahiri A,Lim AY,Qifen Z,Lim BH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap is one of the most commonly used flap worldwide, as both free flap and pedicled local flap. Here, we report the use of a pedicled chimeric sensitive ALT and vastus lateralis muscle (VLM) flap in a patient with a 12 cm × 8 cm contaminated soft tissue defect of the right inguinal regio...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Scaglioni MF,Franchi A,Giovanoli P

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the high success rate of free-tissue transfer, thrombosis still complicates 5-30% of cases. Meticoulous technique, careful vessel selection, and pharmacological prophylaxis are not always enough to avoid thrombosis. Early diagnosis and reintervention provide the only way to salvage a thrombosed free flap, in c...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： D'Arpa S,Cordova A,Moschella F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old male patient was operated for a soft tissue defect of the spine using a free musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi flap with two 21-cm long venous grafts connecting the flap to its vascular supply at the thoracodorsal vessels. This young patient suffered from Noonan's Syndrome that is a complex hereditary ma...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Sinis N,Lanaras TI,Kraus A,Werdin F,Schaller HE,Peek A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Microsurgical lower extremity flap reconstruction provides a valuable option for soft tissue reconstruction in comorbid patients. Limb salvage with flap reconstruction can result in limb length preservation. Despite this, few studies have examined the impact of salvage on patient-centered metrics in this c...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Patel KM,Economides JM,Franklin B,Sosin M,Attinger C,Ducic I

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed a forearm flap that had been thinned through primary defatting for nasal covering in three cases to reduce the need for secondary revision. Partial flap loss did occur in one case due to subcutaneous vascular plexus injury, but acceptable results were obtained in the remaining two cases. Donor site concave...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Kobayashi S,Akizuki T,Yoza S,Ohmori K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free vascularised bone transfer (fibula, iliac crest, or rib) is an accepted method of bone grafting in malignant and non-union bone surgery. The vascular microanastomoses have transformed the bone healing by creeping substitution seen after non-vascularised grafting (a long and often insufficient process) into normal...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Nonnenmacher J,Bahm J,Moui Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate regeneration of reinnervated, free transplanted muscles. We used a rat model, consisting of eight rats per group, in which the latissimus dorsi muscle was transplanted orthotopically and then harvested and evaluated after 2 and 12 weeks. Age-matched control animals were used to o...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Becker MH,Lassner F,Dagtekin FZ,Walter GF,Berger A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several technical advances over the years have allowed microsurgery to be successful. However, thrombosis, particularly at the anastomosis site, remains a complication of microvascular surgery. Various preventive measures, including drugs, have been used to improve microvascular surgical anastomotic patency rates. The...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Das SK,Miller JH

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a digital degloving injury of four fingers, a combined treatment of tripedicle dermal flap, free hemipulp web flap, and skin graft was used. The functional and cosmetic results of the hand were satisfactory. The patient had an excellent sensory recovery in the free hemipulp web flap and did not complain of any disa...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Karacalar A,Ozgenel Y,Ozcan M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the natural course of postsurgical adhesion formation, a descriptive animal study was performed in a standardized rat adhesion model, involving the uterine horn and peritoneal side wall. Extent and type of postsurgical adhesion formation was evaluated at increasing postoperative time intervals up to 1 year...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Bakkum EA,Trimbos-Kemper TC

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:We report a case of combined two toe transfer after distal ulnar artery fasciocutaneous flap in a 10-year-old boy who has four-digit amputation. Four years after the operation, satisfactory results were obtained both functionally and cosmetically. ...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Yildiz M,Sener M,Turgutoğlu O,Baki C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the feasibility of a microsurgical procedure in the context of microgravity during parabolic flights. The surgical procedure included the sectioning and repair of a rat sciatic nerve and tail artery with 10/0 monofilament sutures. Both procedures were successful. To date, tel...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Pinsolle V,Martin D,de Coninck L,Techoueyres P,Vaïda P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes-the indications for, the main points of the surgical technique, and the results of composite reconstruction using a combination of pediculated and free tissue units, which has allowed extensive and complex reconstruction following resection of malignant tumors in the head and neck region or in the...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Yoshino K,Nara S,Endo M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of lymphatic and venous pressures of normal and lymphedematous rabbit ears reveal the end pressure of lymphatics to be higher than the venous pressure. Massage of the related rabbit ear increases the lymphatic pressures and can markedly raise the side and end pressures within the lymphatic wall. The venous pre...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Huang GK,Hsin YP

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Between 1987-2002, omental free-tissue transfer was used in 11 patients, aged 6-65 years (mean age, 37.6). The omentum was used for the treatment of brachial plexus injury pain (3 cases), Romberg's disease (1 case), defects of the extremities occurring with chronic obstructive arterial disease (2 cases), posttraumatic...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Ciuce C,Seddiq F,Fodor M,Constantinescu D,Todoran M,Andercou A,Demco D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that nerve flaps are superior to nerve grafts for bridging long nerve defects. Moreover, arterialized neurovenous flaps (ANVFs) have multiple potential advantages over traditional nerve flaps in this context. This paper describes a case of reconstruction of a long defect of the ulnar artery and nerve...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Casal D,Pais D,Mota-Silva E,Pelliccia G,Iria I,Videira PA,Mendes MM,Goyri-O'Neill J,Mouzinho MM

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:It is known that a vein graft provides a good microenvironment for axon regeneration in motor peripheral nerves, but the use of artery graft for regeneration of sensory nerves is controversial. We sectioned the saphenous nerve and repaired it by using heterologous inside-out and standard artery graft techniques in rat...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Rodrigues Ade C,Silva MD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascularized grafting with segments of fibula was performed in four men with aseptic necrosis of the femoral head. The patients were restricted to relatively young individuals in whom the necrosis seemed to be confined to two-thirds or less of the femoral head and in whom the outer shell of the femoral head appeared r...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Fujimaki A,Yamauchi Y

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and experimental studies have been conducted to improve the survival of venous flaps. As a result of these studies, although various survival mechanisms were raised, none obtained satisfactory information. Venous stasis, and the resultant venous thrombosis, is a factor that decreases the survival of venous fl...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Askar I,Saray A,Gurlek A,Sevin K,Sabuncuoglu BT

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Groin dissection is the procedure with the highest risk of lower limb lymphedema.As lymph stasis causes irreversible alterations to the limb over time,therapies should be administered in early stages,or better yet, lymphatic drainage impairment should be prevented.We developed a new preventive approach to lym...

journal_title：Microsurgery

authors： Gentileschi S,Servillo M,Garganese G,Fragomeni S,De Bonis F,Cina A,Scambia G,Salgarello M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00