A New Approach for the Correction of Prominent Ear Deformity: The Distally Based Perichondrio-Adipo-Dermal Flap Technique.

Background: Otoplasty techniques are generally divided into 2 categories as cartilage-cutting and cartilage-sparing. The cartilage-cutting techniques have been criticized because of their high risk of hematoma, skin necrosis, and ear deformity. As a result, suture-based cartilage-sparing methods like Mustardé and Furnas-type suture techniques have become increasingly popular.

A rare complication of follicular hair unit extraction: Kaposi's varicelliform eruption.

Follicular hair unit extraction (FUE) is becoming a popular type of hair transplantation recently. Kaposi's varicelliform eruption (KVE) is an uncommon skin emergency due to cutaneous dissemination of several types of viruses, most notably herpes virus, over the lesions of preexisting skin disorders. A 34-year-old man visited our dermatology outpatient clinic with a blistering, itchy and tender eruption on his head and body.

Autologous fascia graft as a biological barrier to silicone application in rabbits.

Objective: To determine the cellular effects of providing a fascial interface around subcutaneously-placed silicone implants, in terms of capsule thickness, myofibroblast/fibroblast cell count and inflammatory cell count.

Study Design: Interventional, comparative study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Laboratory of Experimental Animals, Istanbul, Turkey, from May to September 2008.

Effect of a fascial tissue interface on silicone implant capsule formation--a preliminary experimental study.

The effects of a fascial tissue interface on silicone implant capsule formation were studied in a rabbit model. In two experimental groups, the thoracodorsal fascia was harvested either as a free graft (Group Ia) or as a fascial flap (Group Ib), then wrapped around silicone implants prior to subcutaneous placement. In each instance the fascia was configured to form a biological interface between the implant and surrounding soft tissue.

Versatility of botulinum toxin: a use in stabilization of pedicled muscle flaps.

Background: In this study, botulinum toxin A was used to secure the stabilization of muscle flaps without denervation atrophy.

Methods: Thirty adult female Wistar rats were divided into a control group (group I, n = 10), a denervation group (group II, n = 10), and a botulinum toxin A group (group III, n = 10). In all of the groups, pedicled pectoralis major muscle flaps were elevated from the sternal attachment on the right side.