Morphological, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic research of a poorly known non-dorsomarginalian ciliate: Erniella filiformis Foissner, 1987 (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia).

Erniella Foissner, 1987 is a poorly known genus with its available information limited solely to morphological characteristics. In this study, the type species E. filiformis, isolated from highly saline water in China, was investigated for morphology, morphogenesis, and phylogeny based on small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences.

Repair of hand scars by a dilated deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap.

We have investigated the mapping of several deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEAP) vessels in each patient, the effect of tissue expansion on the variation in the diameter of the DIEAP vessel, and the clinical effect of repair of hand scars by applying a dilated DIEAP flap. From 2000 to 2009, we did some research on this flap using a Doppler probe and computed tomographic (CT) angiography, and found that the inferior epigastric arteries are distributed between 4 cm above the umbilicus and 8 cm below the umbilicus. Most of the vessels are distributed in zones I, II, and III according to the Rand zonal approach.

[Distribution of deep inferior epigastric perforator vessel and application of the expanded perforator flaps].

Objective: To explore the distribution of deep inferior epigastric perforator vessel and application of the expanded perforator flap for large scar on hand and forearm.

Methods: 20 healthy adults were selected to detect the distribution of deep inferior epigastric perforator vessel. 10 cases with cicatricial constriction on hand and forearm were treated with expanded perforator flap.

[Repair of the severe cleft palate in patients over 10 years old by soft palate plasty combined with buccal musculomucosal flap].

Objective: To investigate the repair of the severe cleft palate in patients over 10 years old.

Methods: First, the horizontal palate of the palatine bone was broken and the greater palatine foramen was enlarged by chisel. Then the great palatine neurovascular bundle was released.