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Background. Is the use of intraoperative breast sizers beneficial for plastic surgeons or do they result in higher complication rates? Methods. This is a retrospective study of 416 consecutive cases of primary breast augmentation with silic…

[BACKGROUND] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of the plication of the anterior rectus sheath during abdominoplasty and the anatomical characteristics of patients with recurrence. [METHODS] Thirty-eight patients were…

[BACKGROUND] Surgical rejuvenation of the aging face is common in aesthetic surgery, and many surgical techniques have been described for accomplishing it. The keys to consistent results are the surgeon's judgment and ability to individuali…

Plastic, reconstructive, and cosmetic surgery refers to a variety of operations performed in order to repair or restore body parts to look normal or to enhance a certain structure or anatomy that is already normal. Several ethical considera…

The importance of residents' training in aesthetic surgery and the need for acquiring confidence in performing cosmetic procedures is an established knowledge. A survey was done in two different training systems to evaluate the experience o…

In recent years, lumpectomy combined with breast irradiation and chemotherapy, as a part of conservation therapy for breast cancer, has well-established results. Little has been published on reduction mammoplasty for breast-irradiated patie…

[BACKGROUND] Rhytidoplasty may cause permanent and unwanted stigmas, such as dislocation of the temporal and cervical hairline. Widened scars inside the hairline may cause considerable social embarrassment. Furthermore, pretrichial incision…

[BACKGROUND] Recent studies have provided diverging results regarding the factors that may affect sensibility after primary breast augmentation. Implant volume is believed to be an important factor, but the relation of implant size to breas…

Professor Ivo Pitanguy is Head Professor of the Plastic Surgery Departments of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the Carlos Chagas Institute of Postgraduate Medical Studies. He also is a member of the Brazilian Societ…

Aging in the upper face becomes more evident as the eyebrow level descends. Sometimes this may begin at an early age. The senior author has described a limited approach for the treatment of this aesthetic alteration. In selected cases, the …

Concepts of beauty have been continuously evolving throughout the history of mankind. The voluptuous figures that were idealized by artists in the past have been substituted by slimmer forms. Medical advances in this century have permitted …

Aging of the face is a frequent complaint in today's youth-oriented society. Competition and successfulness, in social and professional circles, are intimately related to how a person reflects, in his or her physical appearance, an inner we…

Aging of the upper face is a frequent complaint in patients seeking a more youth appearance. Sometimes muscle dynamics are excessively forceful and cause marked lines of expression relatively early in life. Regardless of chronologic age, it…

The approach to a rapidly growing vascular tumor is determined by a number of objective and subjective factors. As a rule, treatment of a hemangioma in an infant is usually delayed, in the expectation that involution will be complete. While…

Tissue expansion allows a functional as well as an aesthetic reconstruction of local defects and thus corresponds to the actual state of the art in plastic surgery.-Tissue expansion provides tissue of the same quality for the repair of defe…

An account is given by the authors of their own guidelines for surgical treatment of deformities of the anterior abdominal wall. The procedures described are based on experience obtained from 866 surgical interventions at the first author's…

The authors present retrospectively results and complications of 47 treatments with fluid dimethylpolysiloxane (silicone). The injections were not administered in the author's surgical department. The history of fluid silicone, its tissue r…

The authors report 27 cases of macrocheilia, discussing each cause individually. They classify macrocheilia according to its etiology, emphasizing the importance of an accurate diagnosis in treating the disease. The operative technique indi…

A surgical procedure is described for severe ectropions of the lower lid which cannot be treated successfully by conservative measures or minor surgery. This technique, employing a perichondrocutaneous graft, is superior to traditional meth…

The treatment of the sequelae of facial burns is still a controversial subject. The authors present a retrospective study of 1516 cases between 1967 and 1987. They suggest a more conservative approach of the therapy in purely aesthetic lesi…

The authors report on a 25-year retrospective study of 488 cases of prominent (protruding) ears corrected by the island technique of Pitanguy.…

The authors present their philosophy of rhytidoplasty and the basic technical details of this kind of operation. The aging face often causes psychological as well as social problems that make patients go to a facial plastic surgeon. The aut…

An evaluation of the senior author's mentoplasty technique by use of inorganic silicone and acrylic implants is presented, encompassing 16 years of experience. The evaluation was chiefly concerned with the silicone implant and long-term fol…

Through the analysis of 300 cases of prominent ears operated by Pitanguy's technique with a follow-up of 1-15 years we observed the preservation of the aesthetic aspect as well as the cephaloauricular angle. We call attention to its easy pe…

An experimental and clinical study using alloplastic materials (Marlex and Prolene mesh) for repairing large defects of the abdominal wall is reported. A defect was created in the experimental model to simulate an anatomical disarrangement …