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Malar bags: clinical features and therapeutic options.
Malar bags are a common aesthetic concern characterized by swelling and puffiness in the prezygomatic space and cheek area. Various medical and surgical techniques have been developed to address this condition and restore a more youthful an…
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Comparison of 2.5% agarose gel vs hyaluronic acid filler, for the correction of moderate to severe nasolabial folds.
[BACKGROUND] Agarose gel filler is a natural hydrocolloid with a three-dimensional structure similar to the extracellular matrix, with gel formed by hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions rather than through chemical cross-linking or…
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ADM-assisted prepectoral breast reconstruction and skin reduction mastectomy: Expanding the indications for subcutaneous reconstruction.
[BACKGROUNDS] Recently a flood of new techniques and studies have been released for prepectoral reconstruction, following strict criteria for selection of patients undergoing skin or nipple sparing mastectomy. Nevertheless a big population …
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Comparison between antimicrobial-coated sutures and uncoated sutures for the prevention of surgical site infections in plastic surgery: a double blind control trial.
[OBJECTIVE] Surgical site infection (SSI) produces considerable morbidity and increases health care costs. One of its causes is microbial adherence to the surgical sutures surface. A strategy to avoid microbial colonization is the use of an…
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Clinical, histological, and ultrasound follow-up of breast reconstruction with one-stage muscle-sparing "wrap" technique: A single-center experience.
[BACKGROUND] Prepectoral implant placement and complete coverage with porcine acellular matrix after mastectomy is a new concept in breast surgery presented in few cases in the literature. This paper aimed to present our single-center exper…
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Patient satisfaction as an excellent track record in nonsurgical rejuvenation procedures.
[OBJECTIVE] Patient satisfaction is the goal of most aesthetic procedures. The aim of this study is to analyse nonsurgical rejuvenation procedures in a private practice setting, over a period of 10 years, evaluating patients' compliance, sa…
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Surgical therapy of breast hypertrophy: a comparison of complications and satisfaction rate in large and small superior pedicle custom-made reduction mammaplasty.
[OBJECTIVE] The reduction mammaplasty is indicated for patients with symptomatic breast hypertrophy. Although surgery is considered the gold standard treatment, it is still debated which is the complication rate and whether or not there is …
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Breast reduction: personal technique.
[INTRODUCTION] Macromastia is a health problem that requires the coordination of surgical and medical specialists. Goals of reduction mammaplasty are to alleviate physical, emotional and psychosocial discomforts and to restore a conical-sha…
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The effect of post-mastectomy radiation therapy on breast implants: Unveiling biomaterial alterations with potential implications on capsular contracture.
Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction with expanders and implants is recognized as an integral part of breast cancer treatment. Its main complication is represented by capsular contracture, which leads to poor expansion, breast deformation,…
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Evaluation of a new hyaluronic acid dermal filler for volume restoration.
[OBJECTIVES] The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of hyaluronic acid gel for the treatment of volume loss or contour deficiency. [METHODS] This 6-month, open-label study recruited sixty adults aged 40-65 years w…
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A new dermal filler made of cross-linked and auto-cross-linked hyaluronic acid in the correction of facial aging defects.
[BACKGROUND] A novel Hyaluronic Acid (HA) derivative dermal filler has been developed with characteristics especially suited for nasolabial folds (NLF) and facial defects due to volume loss. [AIMS] An open-label prospective study was carri…
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A study of postural changes after abdominal rectus plication abdominoplasty.
[PURPOSE] Factors such as body masses and humour are known to influence human posture. Abdominoplasty, which causes a sudden change in body masses, significantly improves body image and self-esteem. The aim of this study was to assess postu…
- Treatment of post mastectomy pain syndrome after mastopexy with botulinum toxin.
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Association between abdominal separation and inguinal or crural hernias: our experience and surgical indications.
Abdominal wall weaknesses present several causative factors, both local and systemic and, as a consequence, abdominal hernias may develop in more than one site. Also, simultaneous hernia repair has been rarely reported in published reports.…
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Preliminary report on the use of the Spectra™ implant for the correction of hypoplastic breasts with small-volume asymmetry.
[BACKGROUND] Small-volume breast asymmetry is a challenging problem. In 2008, an intra-operative volume-adjustable breast implant, consisting of a round textured implant with an outer chamber filled with cohesive silicone gel and inner cham…
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A clinical study of late seroma in breast implantation surgery.
[BACKGROUND] The use of mammary implants may lead to a variety of early and delayed complications. The most common delayed complications are capsular contracture and implant failure. Late seroma has seldom been reported. In a long-term pros…
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A study of postural changes after breast augmentation.
[BACKGROUND] A number of factors, including body mass and one's mood, may influence posture. Breast augmentation results not only in a significant improvement in body image-related feelings and self-esteem but also in a sudden change in bod…
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Effects of zafirlukast on capsular contracture: long-term results.
Capsular contracture is a distressing complication after breast augmentation for both the patient and surgeon. Although capsular contracture is a multifactorial process, one common denominator in the successful treatment of this complicatio…
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A study of postural changes after breast reduction.
[BACKGROUND] Numerous factors such as the equilibrium of body masses and psychological status influence human posture. Breast reduction, on the one hand, produces a sudden change in this equilibrium, and on the other hand, it can modify the…
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Multicenter study on breast reconstruction outcome using Becker implants.
The use of tissue expanders and implants is the simplest option for breast reconstruction following mastectomy. In the 1980s, Hilton Becker introduced a round, inflatable breast implant that could be used as a permanent implant. Since then,…
- Single follicular unit hair transplantation to restore eyebrows.
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Hair regeneration from transected follicles in duplicative surgery: rate of success and cell populations involved.
[BACKGROUND] The use of bisected hair follicles in hair transplantation has been previously reported, but the capacity of each half to regenerate the entire hair has not been clarified. [OBJECTIVE] To evaluate duplicative surgery rate of s…
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Breast desmoid tumor after augmentation mammoplasty: two case reports.
Desmoid tumor of the breast is a rare fibroblastic disease, a slow-growing and histologically benign lesion that accounts for 0.2% of all breast tumors. It can arise either primarily from the breast parenchyma or, by secondary invasion, fro…
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Treatment of muscular contraction deformities with botulinum toxin type A after latissimus dorsi flap and sub-pectoral implant breast reconstruction.
Unusual and probably underestimated complications following breast reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi (LD) flap and sub-pectoral implant are the LD muscle twitching and the breast contour deformities from pectoralis major (PM) muscle co…
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Assessment of a new hyaluronic acid filler. double-blind, randomized, comparative study between Puragen and Captique in the treatment of nasolabial folds.
Fillers represent a field of aesthetic medicine under remarkable expansion. Over the past few years, in the USA, there has been a huge increase in the use of fillers, especially for hyaluronic acid (400% in 2004). The causes of this increas…
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Custom-made Reduction Mammaplasty.
[BACKGROUND] Macromastia is a health problem that requires the coordination of surgical and medical specialists. Goals of reduction mammaplasty are to alleviate physical, emotional and psychosocial discomforts and to restore a conical-shape…
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[Treatment of the capsular contracture around mammary implants: our experience].
The most common complication in patients who underwent mammary implant surgery is capsular contracture. Actually, there is no standard effective treatment for this complication. The aim of this article is to show our experience about LTRAs …
- Hair transplantation to restore pubic area.
- Humanitarian mission in Bangladesh.
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Combined transdermal scopolamine and botulinum toxin A to treat a parotid fistula after a face-lift in a patient with siliconomas.
A parotid fistula is a rare, extremely unpleasant disease. Patients with chronic pathologies of the facial soft tissues have a high complication rate after aggressive treatments. Alternative conservative treatments have recently been report…