Dressing the split-thickness skin graft donor site: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to compare Aquacel (ConvaTec, Skillman, New Jersey), Allevyn (Smith & Nephew, St Petersburg, Florida), and Mediskin I (Mölnlycke, Health Care AB, Gothenburg, Sweden) in the treatment of split-thickness skin graft donor sites.

Design: This study was performed as a prospective randomized, 3-arm, clinical study.

Setting: A clinical study performed at a hand and plastic surgery department with burn unit.

Reconstruction of large defect of lower lip and commissure using Karapandzic flap: case report.

Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is a photosensitive skin disease with a high risk for developing skin malignancy. We present an 18-years-old boy with XP and recurrent basal and squamous cell carcinoma of lower lip. Because of scars from earlier resections Karapandzic circumoral advancement-rotation flap was performed.

Intravesical self-tying knots in suprapubic catheters: a report of two cases.

We present two cases in which intravesical, self-tying knots occurred when the Cystofix catheter was used for suprapubic catheterization in two male boys admitted for hypospadias surgery. This complication of suprapubic catheterization is most likely due to the pigtail end of the catheter, and should be considered when removal is difficult.

Intermittent injection of bupivacaine into the margin or the cavity after reduction mammaplasty.

Twenty-seven operated women had postoperative intermittent injections of bupivacaine or saline for 24 hours after reduction mammaplasty. The injections were given five-hourly either subcutaneously along the submammary incision or deep into the wound. The patients were randomised into three groups of nine each: 5 ml bupivacaine 0.