Aggressive Acute Marjolin’s Ulcer Arising in a Burn Scar
Marjolin’s ulcer is one of the clinical variants of squamous-cell carcinoma. It is a highly aggressive disease that develops from chronic wounds. Almost 65% of these lesions have been diagnosed on underlying burn scars.
Adela Alvarez Rio+5 more
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Image processing for plastic surgery planning [PDF]
This thesis presents some image processing tools for plastic surgery planning. In particular, it presents a novel method that combines local and global context in a probabilistic relaxation framework to identify cephalometric landmarks used in ...
Favaedi, Leila, Favaedi, Leila
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A New 3D Tool for Planning Plastic Surgery [PDF]
Face plastic surgery (PS) plays a major role in today medicine. Both for reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, achieving harmony of facial features is an important, if not the major goal.
Bottino, Andrea Giuseppe+3 more
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RAB37 Promotes Adipogenic Differentiation of hADSCs via the TIMP1/CD63/Integrin Signaling Pathway
The adipogenic differentiation ability of human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hADSCs) is critical for the construction of tissue engineering adipose, which shows promising applications in plastic surgery and regenerative medicine.
Haili Huang+7 more
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Surgery-for-life:Aging, sexual fitness and self-management in Brazil [PDF]
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork on plastic surgery to explore tensions in aging norms and ideals for women in Brazil. I situate my analysis in relation to debates about a “de-chronologized life course.” Some scholars argue that the life ...
Edmonds, Alexander
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Plastic Surgery Home Program Match Rates
Background Historically, integrated plastic surgery is one of the most competitive specialties in the residency match. In the 2020–2021 residency application cycle, plastic surgery programs were forced to adjust how they select applicants because of the ...
A. Faletsky+2 more
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YouTube as a resource for surgical education with a focus on plastic surgery – a systematic review
Surgery trainees use videos as a means to learn about surgical procedures. YouTube is the biggest online video platform and used for educational content as well but the medical information provided does not undergo peer review or other forms of ...
I. Besmens+3 more
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Equality of Opportunity versus Sufficiency of Capabilities in Healthcare [PDF]
The paper compares three accounts of distributive justice in health (and more specifically healthcare). I discuss two egalitarian accounts—Daniels's fair equality of opportunity for health and Segall's luck-egalitarian equity in health—and contrast them ...
Tiktin, Efrat Ram
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Research priorities in light of current trends in microsurgical training: revalidation, simulation, cross-training, and standardisation. [PDF]
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any ...
Aggarwal+51 more
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Ultra-sonografia para medir a diástase dos músculos retos do abdome [PDF]
PURPOSE: Preoperative imaging evaluation may be useful for determining the position of recti abdominis muscles before their correction. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography to measure the width of rectus abdominis ...
Ely, Pedro Bins+8 more
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