Plastic and reconstructive surgery
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Plast. Reconstr. Surg. · Jul 2006
Comparative StudyIs it safe to combine abdominoplasty with elective breast surgery? A review of 151 consecutive cases.
This study was designed to evaluate and compare the complication rates of patients having abdominoplasty without breast surgery with the rates of those having abdominoplasty with various types of elective breast surgery, including breast augmentation, breast reduction, mastopexy, and mastopexy combined with simultaneous augmentation. ⋯ The results of this retrospective review indicate that combining elective breast surgery with abdominoplasty does not appear to significantly increase the number of major or minor complications.
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Plast. Reconstr. Surg. · Jul 2006
Intellectual outcomes in children and adolescents with syndromic and nonsyndromic craniosynostosis.
Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of the skull bones, is a congenital deformity that has functional and morphologic implications. Cranial vault reconstructive surgery is required to improve skull shape and increase intracranial volume. Craniosynostosis disorders carry a risk of brain insult and associated neurologic and cognitive dysfunction. This study investigated the long-term effects of craniosynostosis on intelligence in children and adolescents with syndromic and nonsyndromic disorders who had undergone cranial expansion surgery during infancy. ⋯ Findings are contrary to the historical impression that has regarded syndromic craniosynostosis as synonymous with intellectual disability. Children with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis are of normal intelligence during their school-age years.
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Plast. Reconstr. Surg. · Jul 2006
Prediction of morbidity and mortality on admission to a burn unit.
Improvements in burn care during the last two decades call for new prediction models of morbidity and mortality. The aim of the study was to identify parameters that are predictive of major morbidity factors and risk of mortality in patients with burn injury. ⋯ Using objective measurements in burn treatment is of great importance. The formulas presented by the authors explain a considerable percentage of the probability of morbidity in burn victims. The authors suggest that other burn units develop their own statistically supported prediction models.
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The use of free vascularized nerve grafts requires intimate knowledge of the blood supply of peripheral nerves. The authors aimed to demonstrate radiographically the topography of the upper limb nerves with their blood supply, and to examine them as an application of the angiosome concept. An angiosome is a three-dimensional block of composite tissue supplied by a single source artery. ⋯ The authors' work has a wide range of clinical applications and provides an anatomical basis for neurovascular and neurocutaneous flaps and free vascularized nerve grafting.