In Romania, the incidence of malignant melanocytic tumors is continuously increasing. According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin neoplasms has increased considerably and globally, in the last decade. We present the case of a 49-year-old patient who, over the course of 7 years, came in the Plastic Surgery Clinic of the Emergency County Hospital of Craiova for the excision of a number of 25 skin tumor formations, located on the face, cervical region, trunk and upper limbs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBasal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer in the fair-skinned adult population over 50 years of age and the incidence is rising. Generally, BCC has an indolent course, low mortality and a good prognosis due to low rates of metastasis. Giant basal cell carcinoma is a rare reported oncological entity which accounts for 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTissue healing is a complex, dynamic process, characterized by the replacement of devitalized and absent cell and tissue structures. This can be obtained by different methods, these being found in the "reconstructive scale", which although it is very rich does not offer a universally valid solution for closing skin wounds. In plastic surgery, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has proven effective in the treatment of skin graft donor areas, burn wounds, skin grafts, tendons, or varicose ulcers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBasal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a common, locally invasive tumor that arises within sun-damaged skin and rarely develops on the palms and soles or mucous membranes. Men generally have higher rates of BCC than women. Incidence also increases with age and the median age of diagnosis is 68 years old.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTissue healing is a complex process of replacing damaged tissue structures, being a dynamic process with spatial and temporal involvement. In practice, there are three types of healing: primary, secondary and tertiary. Since even tertiary healing can cause different problems depending on the individual patient, the medical world has always strived for new, easier, more effective, faster, and low cost-effective methods to cover skin wounds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBasal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer. We conducted a retrospective study over a period of two years (2018-2019), on 214 patients from the Plastic Surgery clinic in order to identify the clinical and histopathological aspects of the disease: the case distribution according to sex, living environment, age, histopathological subtype, location. Results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObserving the positive effects of PRP (platelet-rich plasma) used in various pathologies, both in traumatology, orthopedics, sports medicine, and in plastic and reconstructive surgery, we decided to develop an improved product, using granular hyaluronic acid. The paper aims at establishing a protocol for obtaining PRP enriched with hyaluronic acid, which can be used in the current practice of treatment of skin defects, safely, with minimal side effects and limited possible, but to provide a shorter healing period as compared to native, "free" healing. The experiment aims to find an effective and rapid method of healing wounds with skin defects, by using a local adjuvant (PRP enriched with hyaluronic acid), which is available to any plastic surgeon.
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