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Mechanisms of ear trauma and reconstructive techniques in 105 consecutive patients.
Acquired auricular deformities may diminish facial esthetics and cause psychological distress. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the type of injuries and applied reconstructive techniques in a large academic hospital in T…
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EURAPS at 20 years. A brief history of European Plastic Surgery from the Société Européenne de Chirurgie Structive to the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS).
By the end of WWI, plastic surgery had reached unexpected heights. The high quality of the work done for soldiers with facial injuries and burns, either as an emergency or as a delayed procedure, demonstrated that this new discipline was ho…
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Different models of training and certification in plastic surgery.
A varying period of training followed by examinations is the usual way to become a specialist in one of the many fields of Medicine. Plastic Surgery is one of the surgical fields that require good technical and cognitive skills. The best wa…
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Plastic surgeon's risk acceptance in facial transplantation.
[BACKGROUND] A great deal of ethical debate has accompanied the introduction of facial tissue allotransplantation into the clinical arena. Critics contend that the risks of lifelong immunosuppression do not justify the benefits of this new …
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Plastic Surgery Classics: characteristics of 50 top-cited articles in four Plastic Surgery Journals since 1946.
[BACKGROUND] Citation of published articles by peers provides an indication of the relevance of the scientific work. Still, it is unknown what kinds of plastic surgery articles are cited most often. The authors set out to identify the chara…
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Bibliographic characteristics of plastic surgeons in The Netherlands: a 55-year survey.
[BACKGROUND] The allotment of grants is increasingly dependent on benchmarking of scientific output. Still, data to benchmark such output for plastic surgeons are lacking. Therefore, we retrieved these data for plastic surgeons in The Nethe…
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Publications of plastic surgery research 1972 through 2004: a longitudinal trend analysis of three international journals.
[BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF STUDY] Assessment and benchmarking of research output is becoming a necessity in the quest for research funds and grants. However, reports on the trends in international research output by plastic surgeons over th…
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Value of citation numbers and impact factors for analysis of plastic surgery research.
[BACKGROUND] Citations of articles reflect their scientific relevance. The Institute for Scientific Information's impact factor measures the average number of citations to articles in a journal. Consequently, less-cited articles are credite…
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[Body dysmorphic disorder in 3-8% of patients in outpatient dermatology and plastic surgery clinics].
[OBJECTIVE] To determine the 6-month prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in outpatient clinics of dermatology and plastic surgery in a university medical centre. [DESIGN] Questionnaire study. [METHOD] In the period January 2004-J…
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Who benefits from peer review? An analysis of the outcome of 100 requests for review by Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
[BACKGROUND] Little is known of what is done with the comments on submitted manuscripts provided by peer reviewers or to what extent these comments benefit the editor in deciding to accept or reject the manuscript, the author(s) in revising…
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Validity of a structured method of selecting abstracts for a plastic surgical scientific meeting.
In 1999, the European Association of Plastic Surgeons accepted a structured method to assess and select the abstracts that are submitted for its yearly scientific meeting. The two criteria used to evaluate whether such a selection method is…
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Reliability of a structured method of selecting abstracts for a plastic surgical scientific meeting.
There is no generally accepted method for assessing abstracts that are submitted for a medical scientific meeting. This article describes the development and prospective evaluation of such a method applied to the 220 abstracts submitted for…
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The long-term durability of plication of the anterior rectus sheath assessed by ultrasonography.
The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term durability of a standard vertical plication of the anterior rectus sheath. For this purpose, 70 women who had undergone this procedure as part of an abdominoplasty were sent a questionna…
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Complications of abdominoplasty in 86 patients.
A total of 101 consecutive abdominoplasty patients were reviewed retrospectively. Of these, 14 male (mean age at time of operation, 34.3 years; range, 23 to 53 years) and 72 female (mean age at time of operation, 38.9 years; range, 19 to 64…
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The use of silicone occlusive sheeting (Sil-K) and silicone occlusive gel (Epiderm) in the prevention of hypertrophic scar formation.
The development of hypertrophic scars and keloids is an unsolved problem in the process of wound healing. For this reason, a successful treatment to prevent excessive scar formation still has not been found. Over the last decade, however, a…
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The role of suture material in hypertrophic scar formation: Monocryl vs. Vicryl-rapide.
The development of hypertrophic scars and keloids is an unsolved problem in the process of wound healing. There are indications that inflammation plays an important role in this process, but its exact mechanism remains unclear. In this stud…
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Correction of severe blepharoptosis.
An analysis is made of 81 patients with severe blepharoptosis who underwent correction with autogenous fascia. In case of severe blepharoptosis, which means a levator function of less than 5 mm, correction by levator resection gives insuffi…
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Fascia lata suspension of malpositioned ears.
A new technique for the correction of malpositioned ears in congenital or acquired disorders is described. The use of a fascia lata strip makes a rigid fixation of the ear to the pericranium possible without total fixation of the ear in all…
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Thigh augmentation.
Based on the experience with calf and buttock augmentation, a new type of implant was designed for thigh augmentation. A case report is presented.…
- Lesion of the long thoracic nerve during transaxillary breast augmentation: an unusual complication.
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Use of Van der Meulen principles in repair of hypospadias cripples without chordee.
The principle of Van der Meulen procedure was used for correction of 14 hypospadias cripples. The advantages and drawbacks are discussed. Follow-up ranged from one to five years. None of our patients needed a second intervention. Only one c…
- T- and three-flap nipple reconstruction.
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A simple aid for determination of nipple-areola position.
A simple, inexpensive aid for nipple-areola site determination is the disposable electrocardiographic electrode. Patients participate in positioning of the future nipple-areola complex, and accurate localization can be checked even when the…
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Latissimus dorsi three-flap nipple reconstruction.
The author describes the use of latissimus dorsi skin in a one-stage procedure for reconstruction of the nipple. Three flaps of skin are fashioned based on a central disk design.…
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Cartilage tube formation by perichondrium: a new concept for tracheal reconstruction.
The formation of a cartilage tube by perichondrium around a silicone rod is described. Variables introduced in three experiments were (1) perichondrium of auricular elastic cartilage versus that of rib hyalin cartilage, (2) intramuscular ve…