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Mending a World of Problems: 12-Year Review of Medical Tourism Inbound Complications in a Tertiary Centre.
[BACKGROUND] Medical tourism is a rapidly expanding multi-billion-dollar industry. Reduced costs, all-inclusive vacation packages that include cosmetic surgery, globalization, and affordable flight expenses have encouraged patients to seek …
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Fully Awake Breast Reduction.
[UNLABELLED] The authors present 25 cases and an in-depth 4-minute video of fully awake aesthetic breast reduction, which was made possible by thoracic epidural anesthesia. There are obvious and important advantages to this technique. Not o…
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The role of the plastic surgeon in dealing with soft tissue injuries: experience from the second Israel-Lebanon war, 2006.
During the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, 282 Israeli soldiers were evacuated to Rambam Health Care Campus. Of these, 210 were admitted for observation or treatment, and 15 of these were admitted to the Department of Plastic and Recon…
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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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Pharmacokinetics of high-dose diluted lidocaine in local anesthesia for facelift procedures.
The maximal recommended local anesthetic dose of lidocaine is 7 mg/kg; higher doses are used in tumescent liposuction. The objective of this study was to characterize the pharmacokinetics of high-dose diluted lidocaine administered together…
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The oral board examination for plastic surgery: seeking a better way.
Passing written and oral certifying examinations is a prerequisite to obtaining the license required from the Ministry of Health to start practicing as a Plastic Surgeon in Israel. In recent years, residents have complained about the unfair…
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Enhancing the take of injected adipose tissue by a simple method for concentrating fat cells.
Injection of aspirated fat for the correction of tissue defects is a common procedure in plastic surgery. The reported rates of fat cell survival vary greatly in the medical literature, and different techniques of harvesting, processing, an…
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Searching for the favorable donor site for fat injection: in vivo study using the nude mice model.
[BACKGROUND] The use of suctioned fat grafts for correction of soft tissue defects is a widespread procedure in esthetic and reconstructive surgery. The main disadvantage of this simple and sensible procedure is the unpredictable absorption…
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Fate of exposed breast implants in augmentation mammoplasty.
Exposure of silicone breast implants usually leads to infection and extrusion. According to the literature, implant extrusion rates are not higher than 2% 1 and removal of the implant is recommended. 2 During the past 3 years, the authors d…
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Evaluation and comparison of aesthetic results and patient satisfaction with bilateral breast reduction using the inferior pedicle and McKissock's vertical bipedicle dermal flap techniques.
In the last two decades, McKissock's technique for reduction mammaplasty was largely replaced by Robbins's inferior pedicle technique. However, a substantial number of plastic surgeons still perform McKissock's technique in the belief that …
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Aesthetic results and patient satisfaction with immediate breast reconstruction using tissue expansion: a follow-up study.
Immediate breast reconstruction with the tissue expander is now established as an accepted procedure after mastectomy, and large series have been published concerning the technique and its complications. Unfortunately, only scarce informati…
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