Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of the hand: a case report and review of the literature.

abstract：:The authors describe a helical crus reconstruction technique using a postauricular chondrocutaneous flap vascularized by the postauricular vessels. They used this procedure on 7 patients who had developed a large defect on the helical crus following surgery. In each patient the flap design was adjusted to fit the form...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Yotsuyanagi T,Urushidate S,Sawada Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the ability of the gracilis muscle to provide multiple tissue components- skin, muscle, nerve, and tendonin the reconstruction of a complex dorsal foot wound resulting from a sarcoma resection. The deficits of skin, deep peroneal nerve, anterior tibialis tendon, and dorsal extensor retinaculum wer...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Deune EG,Tufaro AP,Manson PN

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Proper wound care along with the use of skin grafts over deep burn wounds has been the standard treatment. However, the goal in burn wound care has shifted from achieving a satisfactory survival rate to improving long-term form and function of the healed wound, which is sometimes hindered by scar contractu...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Ou KL,Tzeng YS,Liu HH,Wu CJ,Chen CY,Chou YY,Hsu KF,Wang CH,Dai NT,Chang CK

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technically we can divide full-thickness thoracic reconstruction into 2 parts: providing a rigid support and ensuring well-vascularized coverage. Since 1986, the authors' center has had ample experience with bone banks and the use of cryopreserved bone grafts, which led them to consider the possibility of using these ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Garcia-Tutor E,Yeste L,Murillo J,Aubá C,Sanjulian M,Torre W

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, brow lifting with botulinum A toxin was performed on patients whose ptosis was corrected using the frontal sling technique, and the effects of this application on ptosis were investigated. Seven patients (with 12 eyelids) on whom the frontal sling procedure was performed using a tensor fascia lata graft...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Isik D,Tekin H,Karadag R,Bilgili SG,Atik B

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noma is primarily affecting children in underprivileged countries and results in disfiguring facial defects, loss of mandibular movement, and subsequent social disintegration. Plastic surgery in West Africa traditionally uses pedicled flaps. In large, complex, or central facial defects, though, pedicled flaps are apt ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Giessler GA,Fieger A,Cornelius CP,Schmidt AB

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to standardize use of the dorsal rat flap model originally described by McFarlane, we determined the following. The effect of delay is readily demonstrated but does not prevent necrosis entirely. Almost all flaps showed some necrosis, but delayed flaps showed approximately 15% less necrosis. Measurement o...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Hurn IL,Fisher JC,Arganese T,Rudolph R

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastectomy has traditionally been performed using a transverse elliptical incision. The disadvantages of this approach are a potentially visible scar medially and poor subincisional soft-tissue coverage of implants laterally. A more natural and aesthetic result is obtained with an oblique incision running parallel to ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Gronet EM,Halvorson EG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the surgical goals of phalloplasty is to obtain sufficient rigidity for sexual penetration. This is also important for patients with erectile dysfunction. Different kinds of techniques have described phalloplasty and obtaining rigidity in patients with erectile dysfunction, but there is no good substitute for t...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Aköz T,Kargi E,Cakir B

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical study was designed in which 20 women who were to undergo bilateral McKissock reduction mammaplasties were requested to use a precut silicone elastomer sheet over the scars of one breast, starting at the time of suture removal. The patients were instructed to use the silicone sheet for 12 hours each day for ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Cruz-Korchin NI

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carpal tunnel decompression (CTD) is the most commonly performed surgical procedure within a hand unit. We have analyzed data on outcomes after carpal decompression performed by both open and closed techniques to assess whether outcomes differed between the 2 procedures. Data were jointly gathered from 2 units. The ai...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Akhtar S,Bradley MJ,Burke FD,Dubin NH,Wilgis EF

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prepuce is an excellent donor site for skin grafts with minimal donor site morbidity. Full-thickness grafts are often required for correction of congenital syndactyly and in burn contractures. METHODS:Preputial skin was used for grafting in 18 children: 5 with burn contractures and 13 with congenital sy...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Ehrlichman RJ,Driscoll DN,Cornejo K,Upton J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of 220 cases of frontocranial remodeling for craniosynostosis is reported. The follow-up period was 10 years for children, 7 years for infants. The principles of the craniofacial techniques described in 1974 [4] and 1978 [3] were not modified; only variations were added. The floating forehead [5] concept...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Marchac D,Renier D

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatments for prominent ears are on the basis of the approach over the basics of the deformity decrease the concha-mastoid angle and create a new antihelical fold. The author describes a new retroauricular flap to be used in the recreation of the antihelical fold and critically analyzes the cosmetic resu...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Frascino LF

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One important complication of tracheostomy procedure is the depressed scar left after the airway is removed. The problem is more challenging for the surgeon if tracheal tug accompanies. Six male patients with unaesthetic, depressed tracheostomy scars due to late removal of tracheostomy tubes after maxillofacial high-v...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Oztürk S,Aksu M,Sengezer M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of patients with infected median sternotomy wounds includes debridement and closure using vascularized tissue, most often the pectoralis major muscle. However, occasionally, surgeons use other flaps to close sternotomy wounds. The purpose of this study is to review 1 center's experience with infected median ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Oh AK,Lechtman AN,Whetzel TP,Stevenson TR

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microsurgery has rapid expanded, problems related to microarterial anastomosis continue. Cigarette smoking is one of the major risks for anastomosis by increasing platelet adhesion, and its effects on endothelial cells. Aim of this article is to study the negative effects of cigarettes on microarterial anasto...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Tosun Z,Karabekmez FE,Duymaz A,Ozkan A,Keskin M,Avunduk MC

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:The effect of 2 to 10 hours of tourniquet ischemia on the microcirculation of the tenuissimus muscle in 29 cats was studied by in vivo microscopy and electron microscopy. After release of the tourniquet there was immediate reperfusion and hyperemia in all muscles. Arterioles of 20 micron increased in diameter by 50% a...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Eriksson E,Replogle RL,Glagov S

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cutaneous vascular anatomy of the proximal one-half of the dorsum (the thoracic region) and its role in flap design was studied in the rat. The investigation included anatomical dissection, ink injection into the axial artery, and flap harvesting in live animals. Anatomical dissection and india ink injection of th...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Syed SA,Tasaki Y,Fujii T,Murakami R,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to most of the literature, sutures for microarterial repair must include the intima to prevent an "intimal flap" and occlusion of the anastomosis. Some authors have said that vessel diameter affects patency rate. This study was designed to evaluate these two statements. The femoral arteries (about 1.0 mm in ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Wray RC,O'Brien BM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In male-to-female genital sex reassignment surgery, the clitoris, its prepuce, and the labia minora remain among the most difficult structures to construct. We describe the authors' clitoroplasty and vulvoplasty technique. METHODS:All patients who underwent male-to-female sex reassignment surgery at a singl...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Mañero Vazquez I,García-Senosiain O,Labanca T,Gómez Gil E

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromuscular dysplasia is an uncommon angiopathy that is principally observed in the renal and carotid arteries. Digital ischemia resulting from fibromuscular dysplasia of the forearm arteries is a rare occurrence. This article describes a case of distal radial and ulnar artery fibromuscular dysplasia presenting as p...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Khatri VP,Gaulin JC,Amin AK

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this case, after augmentation mammaplasty without infection or gross inflammatory reaction, Etheron implants decreased to a small volume of densely hyalinized tissue, leaving essentially no breast augmentation. ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Schnur PL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work in our laboratory has indicated that ischemic preconditioning improves musculocutaneous flap survival 2.5 times that of the control flap area when the flaps are subsequently subjected to 4 hours of global ischemia. The preconditioning protocol used in this study was arbitrarily designed to be 10 minutes ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Zahir TM,Zahir KS,Syed SA,Restifo RJ,Thomson JG

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term postoperative splinting plays a role in the prevention of contracture of the grafted skin after a second-stage ear reconstruction. The scar retraction could lead to an unfavorable aesthetic outcome. Splinting could play a role to overcome or prevent the loss of projection and the obliteration of th...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Vercruysse H Jr,Green JIJ,Osman G,Harrison B,Miyagi K,Bulstrode NW

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Indications for prophylactic antibiotic therapy in nonoperative, closed fractures of the orbit and zygoma remain controversial and are based on anecdotal data. The purpose of this study was to report the incidence of infectious sequelae among patients who presented to our institution with stated fractures ...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Pessino K,Cook T,Layliev J,Bradley JP,Bastidas N

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of basic animal studies using a new subatmospheric pressure technique (The V.A.C.) to expedite wound healing are presented. The technique entails placing an open-cell foam into the wound, sealing the site with an adhesive drape, and applying subatmospheric pressure (125 mmHg below ambient) that is transmitted...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Morykwas MJ,Argenta LC,Shelton-Brown EI,McGuirt W

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to define the incidence of double breast contour in primary aesthetic breast augmentation and to analyze its risk factors. An independent plastic surgeon analyzed the data of 200 patients who had a primary aesthetic breast augmentation with silicone gel implant and with a minimum 12-month fo...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Médard de Chardon V,Balaguer T,Chignon-Sicard B,Lebreton E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An effective and practical method of oxygen administration during cosmetic facial surgery under local anesthesia is described. A large volume of oxygen is delivered directly to the nasopharynx, and partial upper airway obstruction caused by the tongue falling into the pharynx is resolved, yet the apparatus does not in...

journal_title：Annals of plastic surgery

authors： Riefkohl R,Kosanin RM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00