Surgical Management of Pterygium Colli with Significant Skin Laxity: A Case Report.

Pterygium Colli or "palmate neck" is a congenital malformation that is most often part of a polimalformative syndrome. This deformity is a source of aesthetic and social embarrassment. Its correction is surgical.

Decrease of Thrombosis in Microsurgical Anastomoses: The Use of Intraoperative Pure Intraluminal Unfractionated Heparin.

Background:  Unfractionated heparin has anticoagulant properties by catalyzing antithrombin III, which inactivates coagulation enzymes. Used in microsurgery, it would prevent the occurrence of thrombosis during microsurgical anastomoses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of intraoperative irrigation of the vascular lumen with pure sodium heparin to prevent vascular thrombosis after end-to-end microsurgical anastomoses.