abstract：:In the past decade, the number of patients demanding rhinoplasty has increased, and this has increased the use of grafts. Although different materials are used as grafts, cartilage is the most popular one. In secondary rhinoplasties the need for cartilage is very frequent. The most suitable cartilage grafts are the on...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Deren O,Görgü M,Ayhan M,Tuncel A,Erdoğan B

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-seven cases of delayed or inadequately treated zygoma fractures, treated between 1977 and 1999 in the Maxillofacial Surgery Division of the La Sapienza University in Rome, are presented. The functional and aesthetic problems caused by this pathology are analyzed. The results achieved resolve some of the variou...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Becelli R,Carboni A,Cerulli G,Perugini M,Iannetti G

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to understand the anatomical characteristics of forehead wrinkles in order to perform a forehead lift. This study aimed to elucidate the mutual relationships among tissues composing the forehead using computer software that enables the stereoscopic observation of the tissues studied in arbitrary direct...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Nemoto M,Uchinuma E,Yamashina S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a patient with a suspicious glandular node found during reduction mammaplasty is described. The preoperative search for such nodes, the management of cases on which a suspicious node is found intraoperatively, and a situation on which the diagnosis of breast cancer is made during histology are discussed. Whe...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Nahas FX,Farah AB,Solia D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a simple protocol to define the anatomic parameters for creating aesthetic augmented breasts using round silicone implants. This study completes our previous publication on augmentative breast surgery. We discuss the need for correct submuscular dissection and explain how to obtain the correct posi...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Millán Mateo J,Vaquero Pérez MM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of the augmentation prostheses are to increase the volume, enhance the shape, and improve the projection of the breast. Since 1962, plastic surgeons have used the silicone gel-filled breast implant created by Cronin and Gerow. The contents of the standard implant have been modified: silicone gel-filled,...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Bosch G,Jacobo O

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we present our procedure for the treatment, histopathological diagnosis, and resection of skin cancer in the nasal pyramid and its subsequent reconstruction. Because we are dealing with the most important anatomical feature of the face our goal is an aesthetic reconstruction [2,4] according to the anatom...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Rodríguez-Camps S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlobe reconstruction following traumatic damage is a challenge for most of the plastic and reconstructive surgeons. Several methods developed for reconstruction of this deformity have shown to bear various advantages and disadvantages. Our modified Gavello's procedure, without using skin grafting in resurfacing the ...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Emiroglu M,Al-Saedi M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle hypertrophy is a rare finding in neurologic lesions. Infiltration, stretching, and exercise of the muscle are causative factors of enlargement and hypertrophy. We report a case of unilateral calf hypertrophy postpoliomyelitis. The resection of the total medial and partial lateral gastrocnemius muscle was perfor...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Tsai CC,Lee SS,Lai CS,Lin SD,Chiou CS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of the naso-frontal angle shows that a cranial or caudal shift in position affects the dorsum length. The fundamental aspect characterizing the naso-frontal angle is its width: it may be normal, too wide, or too narrow. It's easier to modify a too-narrow angle than a too-wide one. We show surgical techn...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Fontana AM,Muti E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous efforts to use adipocyte transplants for tissue augmentation have been limited by high and unpredictable resorption rates. Preadipocytes are precursor cells that are capable of replication and differentiation into mature adipocytes. Furthermore, they are more resilient to ischemia, making them a desirable tra...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Schoeller T,Lille S,Wechselberger G,Otto A,Mowlavi A,Piza-Katzer H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifting the lower eyelid includes removing skin excess of the lid and, most of the time, improves the fat herniation without any removal of the fat because of the tension of the orbicularis muscle obtained with this maneuver. The "lifting" also corrects the arcus marginalis as well as malar bags when they exist. Most ...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Lassus C

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although abdominoplasty has always been a routine operation, demands for it are constantly increasing for diverse reasons. For one, stomach reduction practiced by digestive surgeons is becoming a regular procedure. Massive weight loss induced by this surgery leads to a demand for abdominoplasty with increased risks of...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Le Louarn C,Pascal JF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of axillary osmidrosis has been mainly concerned with surgical excision of glandular tissues and involved major surgical procedures with high morbidities and many complications. Search for a less invasive procedure for axillary osmidrosis resulted in the use of liposuction. However, there have been controver...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Park S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present our experience with endoscopic transaxillary subglandular breast augmentation using textured silicon gel implants. Fourteen implants were placed in seven patients through a 4 cm axillary incision, in a subglandular pocket, with the help of a 10 mm, 30 degrees endoscope with a subcutaneous retractor and endo...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Villafane O,Garcia-Tutor E,Taggart I

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper shows how one of the flaps of the SMAS, which is normally eliminated during a facelift as excess tissue, can be folded up and used to improve the projection of cheekbone. The improvement of the projection of this facial area enhances the aesthetic result, when the desired aesthetic result is discreet, in rh...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Tapia A,Mejina D,Rengifo M,Blanch A,Ferreira B

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical correction of one of the most frequent congenital malformations, inverted nipples, is analyzed here following a long series of cases, some of which, among the first, date back 17 years and more. The article describes the previous surgical methods and the reasons why they failed, as well as the principle, ...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Crestinu JM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been many important analyses of prosthesis selection, techniques of implantation, and subpectoral or subglandular pockets, but only a few studies comparing and discussing the different approaches. The best incision must achieve a good and simple approach to the retromammary location, subpectoral or subgland...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Fernandez CP,Lopez FM,Burrieza PI

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Orient, faces are usually wide and short. This physical characteristic is often undesirable in many Asian cultures. Consequently, reduction malarplasty is one of the most common aesthetic procedures performed in the Orient. Previously described techniques for malar reduction such as intraoral chiseling or the b...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Choi HY,Lee SW,Lew JM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction mammoplasty in patients with gigantomastia has traditionally been performed by a technique involving free nipple grafting. These patients usually have only a small amount of breast tissue above the inframammary fold and therefore this type of procedure has often left patients with an insufficient amount of s...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Abramson DL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This pilot study's goal was to test the feasibility of a data collection form which will be used in a scale-up study analyzing multiple surgeons' records. The goal of this expanded study will be to develop identifying factors for women who are at greater risk for having ruptured implants and, if necessary, target them...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Embrey M,Adams EE,Cunningham B,Peters W,Young VL,Carlo GL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared an L-shaped framework using autogenous auricular cartilage and combined this with dermal fat, according to each patient, to graft it in 12 patients with cleft lip nose. Although auricular cartilage is weak on its own, by our method we obtained a strong columella strut and nasal dorsum augmentation at the s...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Nakakita N,Sezaki K,Yamazaki Y,Uchinuma E

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three disadvantages are frequent after parotidectomy: a scar affecting the neck, a deep hollow between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the mandible (the larger the resection is, the deeper is the hollow), and a sweat secretion. These disadvantages can be prevented or reduced by using four simple procedures: (1) usi...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Jost G,Guenon P,Gentil S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author emphasizes the close cooperation between U.S. plastic surgeons and the first international journal entirely devoted to plastic surgery, the Revue de Chirurgie Plastique (1931-1934) later to become the Revue de Chirurgie Structive (1935-1938) published under the editorship of Maurice Coelst, M.D. from Brusse...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Vrebos J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors, after a careful review of the scientific literature and on the basis of biophysical concepts with their own experience, conclude that high-intensity ultrasounds (US) are responsible for some biological lesions, which are partly unknown. US can cause burns and skin necrosis; thus, our employment of this te...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Bruno G,Amadei F,Abbiati G

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique to facilitate correct preoperative marking for an en bloc resection in superiorly based mammaplasty is presented. A temporary triangular suture is placed to control the estimated resection lines for the removal of the medial and lateral tissue block. The described technique helps to avoid the formation of ...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Wechselberger G,Schoeller T,Papp C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years the approach to lower blepharoplasty complications has evolved. New and worthy preventive and curative treatments have been suggested for both scleral show and ectropion (operations with or without interruption of the lid margin, mucosal grafts, orbicularis flaps, etc.). Among these, several tech...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Botti G

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A one-stage surgical correction of tuberous and tubular breast deformities is described. An intraareolar donut of pigmented skin is deepithelialized to correct the associated mega areola, allowing, at the same time, a port of entry for insertion of a retroglandular breast implant. The exposed areolar dermis is then te...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Atiyeh BS,Hashim HA,El-Douaihy Y,Kayle DI

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basing our work on ideal aesthetic features of the feminine figure and focusing our attention on the waist, we add several points to the abdominoplasty classification. We have carried out 150 abdomino plasties in the last 5 years: 60% of the patients presented with musculoponeurosis alterations, for whom plicature of ...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Santos E,Muraira J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous fat injection for soft tissue augmentation in the face is claimed to be a safe procedure. However, there are several case reports in the literature where patients have suffered from acute visual loss and cerebral infarction following fat injections into the face. Acute visual loss after injection of various...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Feinendegen DL,Baumgartner RW,Vuadens P,Schroth G,Mattle HP,Regli F,Tschopp H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome is a rare condition which consists of progressive and recurrent orofacial edema, intermittent facial palsy, and lingua plicata. Labial swelling is the most common feature of this syndrome complex. The lips may enlarge up to three times their normal size, resulting in aesthetic deformity a...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Cederna PS,Fiala TGS,Smith DJ Jr,Newman MH

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was the first empirical investigation of body image dissatisfaction in male cosmetic surgery patients. Thirty men completed two body image measures prior to their initial consultation. Results were compared to the norms for each of the measures and with a sample of 30 women seeking similar cosmetic procedur...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Pertschuk MJ,Sarwer DB,Wadden TA,Whitaker LA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging female with excess arm fat and poor skin tone frequently refuses a brachioplasty scar due to permanent detectability. Traditional deep liposuction localized to the posterolateral aspect of the arm frequently leaves sagging, wrinkled skin. Circumferential para-Axillary Superficial Tumescent (CAST) liposuction...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Gilliland MD,Lyos AT

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue expansion is one of the most important armamentaria for aesthetic scalp reconstruction after burn; however, the proper way to employ this technique for the scalp reconstruction usually presents a challenge to the plastic surgeon, especially in the case of a "sideburn" scenario or a large lesion, as with, for ex...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Fan J,Yang P

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description is given of our approach to aesthetic surgery of the ear, based on the concept of the "convex ear" (Figs. 1, 8, 10D, 10F, 10H, 10J, 11B, 12C, 13D) in place of the "three-form ear." Special attention is required regarding the position of the upper pole and the shape, position, and size of the earlobule, i...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Rodriguez-Camps S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to determine the physical properties and microscopic structure of the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS) tissue. Forty virginal specimens and eight reoperated specimens were examined. The following findings were discovered. 1) Microscopic appearance shows the SMAS to consist of collage...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Har-Shai Y,Bodner SR,Egozy-Golan D,Lindenbaum ES,Ben-Izhak O,Mitz V,Hirshowitz B

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better our ability to analyze the facial disproportions of patients of Chinese ancestry, we compared the validity of four neoclassical canons of facial proportion in Chinese and North American Caucasians populations. We tested the frequency of four horizontal facial canons and their eight variations in 206 healthy ...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Wang D,Qian G,Zhang M,Farkas LG

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the advantages of polyurethane foam-covered prostheses has been that in the first 5 to 10 years after their use, the amount of capsular contraction was found much less than when similar "slick" prostheses were used. Another advance was their fixation to the surrounding tissue thus giving a more natural appearan...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Cohney BC,Mitchell S

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current tendency to perform corrective rhinoplasty with the help of computerized images or cephalometric evaluations is justified by the need to adapt the amount of correction to all of the cephalometric relationships and draw on indications on the exact quantity of tissue to add or remove. We propose a very simpl...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Fruscella P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the upcoming Twenty-first Century, we will find many surgical methods and devices that come to fulfill one of the main objectives of the aesthetic plastic surgery: to reduce scars, especially in facial surgery. Endoscopy is one of those methods. In my experience of the last two years, I have used this technique, so...

journal_title：Aesthetic plastic surgery

authors： Chajchir A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00