Shaping the Breast in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery: An Easy Three-Step Principle. Part II - Breast Reconstruction after Total Mastectomy [PDF]
, 2009 This is Part II of four parts describing the three-step principle being applied in reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery. Part I explains how to analyze a problematic breast by understanding the main anatomical features of a breast and how they ...
Blondeel, Phillip +4 more
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Perforator Flap versus Conventional Flap
Journal of Korean Medical Science, 2015 The introduction of perforator flaps represented a significant advance in microsurgical reconstruction. However, confusion has developed due to the erroneous belief that perforator flaps are different from conventional flaps. The concept of the perforator is not new, but is an idea that evolved from the conventional flap.
Kim, Jeong Tae, Kim, Sang Wha
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Quantifying Blood Flow in the DIEP Flap: An Ultrasonographic Study
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2014 Background: The maximum weight of tissue that a single perforator can perfuse remains an important question in reconstructive microsurgery. An empirically based equation, known as the flap viability index (FVI), has been established to determine what ...
Joseph Richard Dusseldorp, BCom, MBBS(Hons) +1 more
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Pedicle First Anterior Approach to Harvest Anterolateral Thigh Flap—Review of 304 Cases
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2022 Background Although considered as a workhorse flap, the anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap has a steep learning curve that makes it difficult for microsurgeons to perform it early in their practice.
G.S. Kalra, Samarth Gupta, Sushrut Kalra
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Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Key Clinical Message Lower red lip reconstruction using a mucosal perforator flap is low‐invasive and adheres to the concept of “like with like.” The location of the mucosal perforator can easily be detected using color Doppler ultrasound.
Sho Yamakawa +2 more
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Butylphthalide Inhibits Autophagy and Promotes Multiterritory Perforator Flap Survival
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Multiterritory perforator flap is an important plastic surgery technique, yet its efficacy can be limited by partial necrosis at the choke Ⅱ zone.
Baolong Li +30 more
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Free flaps for lower limb soft tissue reconstruction in children : systematic review [PDF]
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CLAES, KAREL +5 more
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Balkan Medical Journal, 2020 Background:In plastic surgery practice, fasciocutaneous single-perforator-pedicled propeller flap is a preferred procedure; however, its survival rate is below than expected, especially in flaps with a big rotation arc. When botulinum toxin-A is injected
Umut Zereyak +2 more
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Immediate Bilateral Breast Reconstruction with Unilateral Deep Superior Epigastric Artery and Superficial Circumflex Iliac Artery Flaps [PDF]
, 2016 Autologous breast reconstruction utilizing a perforator flap is an increasingly popular method for reducing donor site morbidity and implant-related complications. However, aberrant anatomy not readily visible on computed tomography angiography is a rare
Gutwein, Luke G. +4 more
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Trends in immediate postmastectomy breast reconstruction in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2015 The study aimed to evaluate local and national trends in immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) using the national English administrative records, Hospital Episode Statistics.
Athanasiou, Thanos +9 more
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