흉터교정술 Scar Revision

[BACKGROUND] Facial wounds, especially the ones lying perpendicular to the Lines of Langer, heal poorly. Several methods have been attempted to rectify this, but most of them do not target the underlying pathological process of scarring. Bo…

[BACKGROUND] The major goal of scar revision is to make the scar aesthetically more acceptable. The injection of botulinum toxin type A is known to help in improving the outcomes of scars by reducing the tension across the wound edges and b…

[OBJECTIVE] Scar revision is 1 of the basic surgery in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery. The classic treatment of the scar is excision scarless tissue, wide undermining and suture by planes. This method has had unsatisfying r…

[BACKGROUND] Various methods have been introduced to eliminate the epicanthus; however, there are no clear guidelines to determine the optimal technique for epicanthus. We aimed to investigate the clinical effect of modified Z-plasty and mo…

Seat belt breast deformity can result in significant aesthetic, functional and psychosocial sequelae. Although seat belt breast deformity is well documented, there is a lack of literature describing their reconstructive management. We descr…

[BACKGROUND] Reduction mammoplasty effectively improves quality of life for women with macromastia. However, little is known whether surgical- or patient-related factors affect satisfaction. [OBJECTIVE] The authors sought to investigate fa…

Congenital amniotic band syndrome (ABS) is an anomaly with no proven etiology occurring in 0.7 per 10,000 live births. This defect mostly concerns the extremities and is often accompanied by other developmental anomalies. There are many met…

[PURPOSE] There have been limited studies evaluating specifically the incidence of wound dehiscence following isolated upper blepharoplasty. This is a large-scale upper blepharoplasty review to evaluate the rate of wound dehiscence, to asse…

This case represents an unusual, and previously unreported, complication of delayed leakage of gastric contents into the subcutaneous tissues 2 years after division of a gastrostomy tube tract during abdominoplasty. Our patient required urg…

[BACKGROUND] NovoSorb Biodegradable Temporising Matrix (BTM) is a synthetic dermal template recently approved for treatment of full thickness defects of the skin. It requires a two-stage reconstruction where it is initially placed into a de…

[INTRODUCTION] Maxillary cancer is relatively rare but devastating for those affected with the disease. For patients who require suprastructural or total maxillectomy for oncologic resection, the resection of the orbital floor can be challe…

[BACKGROUND] Gun violence is a public health epidemic in the United States with 15,315 non-suicide related deaths reported in 2019 by the Gun Violence Archive. To date, abdominoplasty is primarily a cosmetic procedure, which involves low-ly…

[BACKGROUND] Liposuction and autologous fat transplantation represent widely used techniques in plastic surgery to correct or enhance contour irregularities in the face and body. While these techniques are assumed to be safe, liposuction an…

[PURPOSE] The aim of this study was to summarize the literature from 2012 to 2018 on 4 common cosmetic periocular operative procedures including epicanthoplasty, lateral canthoplasty, and upper and lower blepharoplasty. [DESIGN] Systematic…

[BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES] This trial evaluated the effectiveness and safety of Bellafill for full-face acne scar treatment. [PATIENTS AND METHODS] In this open-label, nonrandomized, multicenter pilot study investigating the use of polymethyl…

[OBJECTIVES] This study describes a modified method for secondary correction of whistling deformities in patients with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip/palate (CL/P), using a horizontal double transposition vermilion flap, including parts…

Facial reconstruction may be effectively performed in an office setting using a variety of techniques. Careful patient selection is paramount for achieving successful outcomes in this setting. The most common reconstructive techniques used …

[BACKGROUND] Recent research on stromal vascular fraction (SVF) has demonstrated the presence of numerous growth factors that aid in tissue regeneration and suggest the potential for scar treatment. This study was conducted to clinically sh…

[INTRODUCTION] Combined and/or multistage operations often are needed in postbariatric surgery. [AIM] With this retrospective study of a series of 55 cases, we aim to determine the effectiveness and safety of one-stage combined postbariatr…