BACKGROUND. The efficacy of acute tissue expansion (ATE) in achieving skin closure has been strongly debated. Proponents maintain that ATE is efficacious, whereas critics have argued for lack of supporting scientific data and that ATE is no more…
Spinal accessory nerve injury results in a debilitating shoulder dysfunction. The trapezius is a major suspensory muscle of the shoulder girdle, and paralysis results in chronic pain and debility from disruption of synchronous scapulohumeral rhythm.…
Nasal defects in certain areas such as the columellar-lobular junction, the alar rim and the soft triangle are cosmetically challenging to reconstruct. This paper describes a technique that enables the use of composite grafts for these specific nasal…
Hypothesis: Mathematical methods and their derivatives have practical applications to oncology. They can be used to describe fundamental aspects of tumor behavior, such as loss of genetic stability, tumor growth, immunologic identity, genesis of…
BACKGROUND. Surgical extirpation of lipomas that occur in cosmetically conspicuous areas of the body leaves a visible scar that is usually disfiguring. Minimal-scar segmental extraction (MSE) employs a much smaller incision and extraction and is…
