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Arthur Rainsford Mowlem (1902-1986), plastic surgeon.
Arthur Rainsford Mowlem, the junior of the 'big four' plastic surgeons, with Harold Delf Gillies, Thomas Pomfret Kilner and Archibald Hector McIndoe, came to prominence managing casualties of the Second World War. Rainsford Mowlem's ancesto…
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Women gain weight and fat mass despite lipectomy at abdominoplasty and breast reduction.
[OBJECTIVES] In animal models, fat removal results in compensatory weight gain. No study has reported measurement of weight following lipectomy in humans. We have examined changes in weight in patients who underwent lipectomy. [METHODS] In…
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Anthropometric measurements and their value in predicting complications following reduction mammaplasty and abdominoplasty.
Body mass index (BMI) is the traditional way of assessing patients for body contouring surgery and has been shown to have a predictive value for surgical complications. In recent years, there have been discussions about accuracy of BMI as a…
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Fleur-de-Lys abdominoplasty--a consecutive case series.
Sixty-eight consecutive patients who had undergone Fleur-de-Lys abdominoplasty are described. The mean age was 39 years, (22-62 years) and the mean body mass index (BMI) was 29 kg/m(2) (17-47 kg/m(2)). Forty patients had documented weight l…
- Guidelines.
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Do plastic surgeons resect basal cell carcinomas too widely? A prospective study comparing surgical and histological margins.
Basal cell carcinoma is a common condition facing the plastic surgeon. When formally excised, a surrounding margin of normal skin is included in an attempt to ensure complete excision. We set out to investigate our excision margins in a pro…
- Necrotising fasciitis in the head and neck region.
- Plastic surgery in a changing health service. Kay-Kilner Prize Essay 1990.
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Plastic surgery outpatient audit: principles and practice of "consultant only" clinics.
The effect of instituting "consultant only" clinics on plastic surgery outpatient activity was to produce a 19% reduction in both clinic sessions and new patient bookings, but a 50% reduction in booked follow-up patients; non-attender rates…
- Audit and action.
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Skin malignancy and the reconstructive plastic surgeon.
Skin malignancy represents at least 25% of the plastic surgeon's workload. The commonest tumour, the basal cell carcinoma, usually arises in the skin of elderly patients who are frequently managed by surgery under local anaesthetic, often a…
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The bolus tie-over "pressure" dressing in the management of full thickness skin grafts. Is it necessary?
It has been taught that the bolus tie-over "pressure" dressing is essential for the successful "take" of full thickness skin grafts. This was tested in a prospective randomised trial in which 40 full thickness grafts were either managed wit…
- Outpatient clinics.
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Relative risk: mortality probability and plastic surgery.
Recent publications indicate an increasing interest in the description and assessment of risks related to medical and surgical treatment. The law may come to require fuller disclosure of therapeutic risks than was formerly the case. Against…
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Plastic surgery manpower, training, and prospects in Great Britain.
Compared with all other developed Western countries, Great Britain has a gross underprovision of trained and trainee plastic surgeons. As a result, it has become essential to define specific priority conditions admitted for treatment withou…
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Clinical diagnostic accuracy in the management of primary Stage I cutaneous malignant melanoma in a plastic surgery unit.
In a retrospective review of 614 primary Stage I cutaneous malignant melanomata and 40 nonmelanoma lesions, the diagnostic accuracy(DA) for malignant melanoma was 86.2%. A positive preoperative clinical diagnosis of malignant melanoma was c…
- Dermal collagen implants in man.