Dupuytren's contracture in the black population: a review.

abstract：:One of the most frequently used flaps for the coverage of sacral skin and soft-tissue defects (primarily decubiti) is the gluteus maximus musculocutaneous flap. The authors have developed a new, hatchet-shaped incision direction for the flap and have been using it for 6 years in the surgical treatment of various pelvi...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Jósvay J,Sashegyi M,Kelemen P,Donáth A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cases of severe macromastia, the free nipple graft technique has been the traditional alternative to pedicle transposition. Distress over nipple survival in large reduction mammaplasty and long pedicle transposition is largely responsible for this.A retrospective investigation of the records of 142 reduction mammap...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Gerzenshtein J,Oswald T,McCluskey P,Caplan J,Angel MF

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sildenafil is a cyclic guanosine-specific phosphodiesterase type 5 (PD-5) inhibitor that is widely used for erectile dysfunction. Potent and competitive inhibition of PD-5 enhances levels of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). Fibrin glue-apart from tissue fixation-has been used for slow release of drugs. In this s...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Ulusoy MG,Uysal A,Koçer U,Karaaslan O,Cuzdan SS,Ayyildiz A,Ustün H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral malleolus avulsion is uncommon, and fusion of the syndesmosis of the ankle joint is usually performed in such cases. Others have reported successful reconstruction of the lateral malleolus with a vascularized fibular head. A case of reconstruction in a 17-year-old girl, with a free scapular apophysis flap, is ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Faure P,Canovas F,Bonnel F,Teot L,Quatra F,Giovannini UM,Colonna MR

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Asian breast reconstruction patient is usually of lower mean age, lower body mass index (BMI), and has relatively small breasts. This study aimed to investigate the outcome of 1-stage immediate breast reconstruction using saline-filled implants in the Asian patients.Between April 2002 and July 2005, 30 patients un...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Wang HY,Ali RS,Chen SC,Chao TC,Cheng MH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, inflammatory disease affecting the apocrine glands of the axillary, groin, and mammary regions with significant physical and psychosocial sequelae. Surgical excision of the affected tissue is the criterion standard treatment. Advanced cases of axillary HS are assoc...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Elgohary H,Nawar AM,Zidan A,Shoulah AA,Younes MT,Hamed AM

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old girl was referred to the plastic surgery unit with metastatic malignant melanoma diagnosed in a cervical lymph node. She had previously undergone excision of a Spitz nevus of the cheek at age 18 months. The management of this patient is discussed along with a review of the literature relating to Spitz nev...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Reynolds N,Ali-Khan AS,Rigby H,Orlando A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report illustrates a method of correction for severe hypertrophy of the frontal bone. Accurate preoperative assessment including physical examination, photographs, and radiological studies are necessary. The anterior table of the frontal bone is removed, recontoured, and stabilized to the adjacent bone while...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Nahabedian MY,Al-Shunnar B,Manson PN

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair of complex chest wall defects presents a challenging problem for the reconstructive surgeon. Although the majority of such defects could be repaired with the use of local and regional musculocutaneous flaps, more complicated cases require increasingly sophisticated reconstructive techniques. This study revi...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Chang RR,Mehrara BJ,Hu QY,Disa JJ,Cordeiro PG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compression neuropathies of digital nerves, caused by hypertrophied or anomalous muscles, are rare compared with such occurrences above the wrist. We reported a case of compression neuropathy of the ulnar digital nerves in bilateral thumbs of a massage therapist. Entrapment of the digital nerves by the hypertrophied f...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Chen CC,Chien HF,Chen CL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-breasted closure of the skin is achieved by deepithelialization of 1 edge of a wound and advancement of the opposite edge over this deepithelialized area. Such closure may prevent contamination or exposure of the implant in cases where immediate breast reconstruction with prosthetic material is obtained after s...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Woerdeman LA,Hage JJ,van Turnhout AA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complications after immediate breast reconstruction pose a significant challenge to the reconstructive surgeon. Known risk factors include smoking, obesity, age, and adjuvant oncologic therapies. Less is known about the association between axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) and the development of postoper...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Madsen RJ,Esmonde NO,Ramsey KL,Hansen JE

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with erythematous and/or hypertrophic scars resulting from remote surgical excision or trauma were evaluated and subsequently treated with one to two flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye (585 nm) laser treatments over a 2-month period. Clinical assessments were performed before commencement and at the end of ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Alster TS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy exists on whether or not the epidermal keratinizing squamous epithelium of skin grafts and flaps applied to line a neovagina changes histologically to a nonkeratinizing mucosal type squamous epithelium after vaginoplasty in male-to-female transsexuals. To end this discussion, the aim of this study was to o...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Dekker JJ,Hage JJ,Karim RB,Bloemena E

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic stasis ulcers of the lower extremity can prove difficult to treat. In the event that conservative treatment fails, one approach is to excise the ulcer, ligate the incompetent perforating veins, and close the defect by muscle transposition, followed by application of skin grafts to the transposed muscles. ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Ger R

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several clinical studies promulgate the concept that some degree of crossover innervation occurs after digital nerve injuries are sustained and that the intact digital nerve might even substitute for the loss of nerve function on the injured side. Other studies strongly dispute the existence of this phenomenon. An exc...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Weinzweig N

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anatomical variations encountered in the dissection of 50 facial arteries in 25 adult preserved cadavers are presented. The facial artery was symmetrical in 17 of 25 (68%) of the dissections. The facial artery terminated as an angular facial artery in 34 (68%), a lateral nasal vessel in 13 (26%), and a superior la...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Niranjan NS

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of minimally invasive surgery continues to evolve in all fields of surgery with new developments in techniques and instrumentation. One instrument that has evolved and become useful in the field of plastic surgery is the balloon dissector. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the balloon dissect...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Ip TY,Aponte R,Koger KE,German G,Zobrist R,Levin LS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Textured silicone expanders are alleged to be less painful in the filling process, to have less capsular contracture, and to stay in position better than smooth silicone expanders. To test these three hypotheses, 6 patients undergoing bilateral simultaneous expander implant placement for breast reconstruction after ma...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： May JW Jr,Bucky LP,Sohoni S,Ehrlich HP

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The branches of the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve (MACN) are located at the medial site of the elbow. The MACN, especially the posterior branches, may be injured or transected during cubital tunnel surgery or other medial approaches to the elbow. Damage to the nerve can cause a neuroma, which leads to disabling ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Stahl S,Rosenberg N

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chronic ulcer of the posterior heel or lateral ankle can be a large problem for the patient. The lateral calcaneal artery flap is a reliable neurovascular local skin flap that can cover the defect after excision of the ulcer in this area. The flap includes the lateral calcaneal artery, sural nerve, and lesser saphen...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Hovius SE,Hofman A,van der Meulen JC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reverse sural artery flap is frequently used for reconstruction of the distal third of the leg, ankle, and heel. The major disadvantage of the flap is compression of the pedicle within the subcutaneous tunnel and venous congestion. Others have cited a decrease in this problem by harvesting a midline cuff of gastro...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Maffi TR,Knoetgen J 3rd,Turner NS,Moran SL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients, ages 2 to 5 years, were successfully treated for cervical lymphadenitis caused by the avium intercellulari complex of atypical bacteria. Preoperative treatment with standard antituberculosis therapy had been unsuccessful. Extensive surgery requiring a conservative radical neck dissection was sometimes r...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Lesesne CB,Kaplan EN,Pearl RM,Yeager AS,Crosson FJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional node dissection is practiced as a measure of prophylaxis in patients with stage I and II malignant melanoma. Although the drainage pattern of the extremities is obvious, in the head and neck and trunk it may be ambiguous. We have used lymphoscintigraphy to assist in delineating the lymphatic drainage in 22 pa...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Woods JE,Freedman AM,Brown ML

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meshing of skin grafts has gained wide acceptance as a means of conserving donor sites in cases of extensive skin loss. In smaller injuries, meshed grafts have the advantage of providing for more efficient wound drainage than unmeshed grafts. Covering widely meshed skin grafts with meshed allografts has been found to ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Ersek RA,Denton DR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During recent years, sliding flaps have had great popularity owing to their advantages in terms of reliability, ease of execution, and good morphofunctional results. The limits of these flaps are related to the capacity of excursion in the advancement. To improve these limits, we describe in this article a personal mo...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Campus GV,Lissia M,Pancrazi E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tissue expander and implant remains the most common technique for breast reconstruction. A controversial topic within this method is routine use of acellular dermal matrix (ADM). Acellular dermal matrices have increased risks of infection, seroma, hematoma, skin flap necrosis, and total complications. METHO...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Weinstein B,Kumar A,Smith P,Dayicioglu D

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author addresses rippling of the breast in patients with breast implants as a result of breast reconstruction or in cases of primary or secondary breast augmentation. The technique consists of rotating a flap of scar tissue from thicker parts of the breast to the thin, affected areas. The technique is simple both ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Massiha H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO), identified as the mediator of endothelium-dependent relaxation of vascular smooth muscle, is known to cause a number of inflammatory conditions, especially in ischemia/reperfusion injury. This experimental study, using a rabbit epigastric island flap, was designed to investigate whether skin flap is...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Oshima H,Inoue H,Aihara M,Tomioka M,Ishida H

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oronasal fistula formation is a recalcitrant complication following palatoplasty, resulting in nasal emission during speech and deglutition. We review our series to identify factors associated with fistula incidence. A retrospective review of all children with nonsyndromic cleft palate who underwent 2-flap palatoplast...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Murthy AS,Parikh PM,Cristion C,Thomassen M,Venturi M,Boyajian MJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00