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Direct-to-implant breast reconstruction: retrospective analysis of 91 consecutive cases.
Implant-based reconstruction is the main post-mastectomy reconstructive method. With the introduction of acellular dermal matrices (ADM), direct-to-implant reconstruction has, in selected patients, replaced dual-stage technique with tissue …
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Microsurgical Reconstruction with Free Tissue Transfer in Skin Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.
[BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES] The gold standard of treatment for both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers is wide surgical resection to obtain oncological radicality, which occasionally results in functional or aesthetic impairment, potentiall…
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Lower-Limb Salvage Procedure using Anterolateral Thigh Free Flap and Multiple Tendon Grafts in a Road Injury Patient: A Case Report.
[INTRODUCTION] The free anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap is commonly used to repair a large loss of soft tissue following a lower-limb injury. An issue to be managed is the choice of adequate recipient vessels when the tibial arteries result …
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Case Report: A new variant of the forehead flap for subtotal nose reconstruction in a single stage: the dragonfly flap.
[BACKGROUND] The forehead flap is probably the most used method for nose reconstruction after cancer resection. During the past century, this technique has been continuously refined to achieve better functional and aesthetic outcomes. Diffe…
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Aesthetic Surgery Tourism: An Opportunity or a Danger?
[BACKGROUND] Medical and surgical tourism is a rapidly growing phenomenon in post-pandemic Europe. The exodus of patients abroad to perform surgery, especially cosmetic treatments, is spreading recently in industrialized countries. In the s…
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Retrospective Analysis of Predictive Factors for Complications in Abdominoplasty in Massive Weight Loss Patients.
[INTRODUCTION] Ex-obese patients present with redundancy of abdominal skin and soft tissue due to massive weight loss (MWL). The plastic surgeon can restore the body shape through body contouring procedures. Hence the need to adequately dir…
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Complete Implant Wrapping with Porcine-Derived Acellular Dermal Matrix for the Treatment of Capsular Contracture in Breast Reconstruction: A Case-Control Study.
[BACKGROUND] Capsular contracture (CC) represents one of the most common complications in breast reconstruction surgery, impairing final result and patients' well-being. The role of acellular dermal matrixes (ADM) has been widely described …
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A New CT Analysis of Abdominal Wall after DIEP Flap Harvesting.
The abdominal microsurgical flap based on the deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap has become the most popular option worldwide for autologous breast reconstruction. Several authors have investigated the results of reconst…
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Deep inferior epigastric perforator flap preoperative planning: A comparative analysis between dynamic infrared thermography, computerized tomography angiography, and hand-held Doppler.
[INTRODUCTION] Hand-held Doppler (HHD) sonography and computerized tomography angiography (CTA) are the common assessment tools for deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap preoperative planning. CTA is considered the gold standard m…
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The McKissock's technique in reduction mammaplasty: A comparative study of outcomes and complications in 211 consecutive patients.
Reduction mammaplasty is one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures requested by patients. The areola holding flap can be sculpted using a variety of methods that have evolved over time dependent on vascularity. Our institution has …
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Current Surgical Therapy of Locally Advanced cSCC: From Patient Selection to Microsurgical Tissue Transplant. Review.
Among the non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) the squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most challenging for the surgeon. Local aggressiveness and a tendency to metastasize to regional lymph nodes characterize the biologic behavior. The …
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Brief history in the time of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy. A close look on a Plastic Surgery Unit and Plastic Surgeons efforts during the COVID-19 outbreak.
[BACKGROUND] SARS-CoV-2 and its related COVID-19 are now affecting people worldwide. The pandemic, started at the end of 2019 and spread in Europe and all over the world at the beginning of the 2020, is the biggest threat to the health and …
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Bowel perforation after liposuction in abdominal contouring surgery: Case report.
[INTRODUCTION] Liposuction is one of the most performed procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery worldwide, and its spectrum of applications covers almost all body areas. Systemic or visceral complications following liposuction are rare, but…
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Diagnostic effectiveness of dermoscopy performed by plastic surgery registrars trained in melanoma diagnosis.
[BACKGROUND] Dermoscopy improves sensitivity and specificity and helps in the early detection of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSC). Because of the multidisciplinary approach to melanoma, plastic surgeons may be required to perfor…
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The Posterior Arm Flap for Reshaping the Postbariatric Breast.
[UNLABELLED] Postbariatric surgery, either by itself or in association with other procedures, tries to correct physical defects and body deformities. Because of the intrinsic complexity of massive weight loss (MWL) patients, more than a sin…
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in Plastic Surgery practice: case series and literature overview.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the use of 100% oxygen at pressures more than atmospheric. Several approved applications and indications exist for HBOT in the literature. Non-healing wounds, such as diabetic and vascular insufficiency u…
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Psychological and Psychiatric Traits in Post-bariatric Patients Asking for Body-Contouring Surgery.
[BACKGROUNDS] Obese patients, mainly females, feel uncomfortable and unsatisfied with their physical appearance; they have a wrong perception of their image and consequently diminish their self-esteem, sometimes showing difficulties in func…