Mommy Makeover Surgery: Is Combining Treatments Safe?
Mommy makeover surgery can slim and sculpt many areas of the body, all in a single procedure. However, many of our patients ask the same question during consultations: Is...
2 days ago - Plastic Surgery Center of the South
“Preliminary outcomes and comparison of Polytech POLYtxt® and MESMOsensitive® breast implants with focus on late seroma: single surgeon, retrospective cohort study on 621 consecutive aesthetic breast surgery cases.”
Recent history shows incomplete understanding of the long-term interaction between breast implants and biological tissues. Although complications of silicone textured implants...
7 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Setting up a new microsurgical breast service in a non-tertiary hospital. Is it safe, and do outcomes compare to centres of excellence?
: Access to autologous reconstruction continues to be limited in some areas of the United Kingdom. This is, in part, due to the perceived difficulty offering this service...
8 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Targeted sensory reinnervation by direct neurotization of skin: An experimental study in rats
Background: No effective methods currently exist for breast neurotization in implant-based breast reconstruction. Here we focused on direct neurotization , in which axons...
8 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
3D images of the silicone implants in capsular contracture after breast augmentation using magnetic resonance imaging with SPACE sequence
Capsular contracture is a common complication after breast augmentation. However, no objective methods are available for assessing capsular contracture at present. The goal of...
9 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Six Year Experience of Oncoplastic Volume Replacement Using Local Perforator Flaps
Local perforator flaps may be utilised to correct volume defects after breast conserving surgery, improving the cosmetic outcome and avoiding the need for contralateral...
9 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
The Nature and Importance of Women's Goals for Immediate and Delayed Breast Reconstruction
Objectives: Increasingly, women undergo breast reconstruction surgery to restore health-related and psychosocial quality of life after mastectomy. Most research focusses on BR...
9 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Long-term APBI Cosmetic, Toxicity Data Reported
Long-term cosmetic and toxicity outcomes are good for accelerated partial breast irradiation and whole-breast irradiation, with the latter having a slight edge, the IRMA trial...
21 days ago - Medscape
“Abdominal Weakness, Bulge or Hernia after DIEP Flaps: An Algorithm of Management, Prevention, and Surgical Repair with Classification”
This study analyzes abdominal weakness, hernia and bulge following DIEP flap breast reconstruction. Abdominal wall morbidities are categorized, and an algorithm for management...
23 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Long term outcomes of latissimus dorsi flap breast reconstructions. A single centre observational cohort study with up to 12 years of follow up
The Latissimus Dorsi Myocutaneous Flap is used in post-mastectomy reconstruction. This study has evaluated long-term surgical and patient reported outcomes from LDMF procedures.
23 days ago - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery - 2 articles
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