Introduction: Dressings are a mainstay for wound management; however, dressing adherence to the wound or periwound area can cause pain and trauma at removal. Dressing-related trauma includes skin reactions, adherence to the wound, and skin stripping. The development of atraumatic wound contact layer dressings has been a major advancement in reducing trauma.
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We have been using the lipomodeling technique since 1999 in order to improve the form and the volume of the breasts reconstructed with latissimus dorsi flap. During several recent years this technique has known a considerable development and its results are quite attractive. At the same time, the breast imaging remains to be a fundamental mean of cancer control.
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