Pediatric extremity bone sarcoma reconstruction with the vascularized fibula flap: Observational study assessing long-term functional outcomes, complications, and survival.

Background: Limb salvage is important in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas. The vascularized fibula flap is a versatile option, combined or not with a bone allograft. The authors evaluated the functional long-term outcomes, complications, and survival of using this technique in pediatric patients.

Coverage of supraumbilical abdominal wall defects: The tunnelled-pedicled ALT technique.

Abdominal wall defects are a challenge for reconstructive surgeons. Although the utility of anterolateral thigh perforator (ALT) flap has been well established for lower abdominal wall reconstruction, pedicled ALT flap is usually not considered for supraumbilical defects in the most recent algorithms. The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a tunneled pedicled ALT flap for reconstruction of supraumbilical defect from a series of patients.

Virtual reality AYRA software for preoperative planning in facial allotransplantation.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate a virtual reality software for the recording of anthropometric measurements as a first step towards matching donors with recipients in the preoperative planning process which precedes the harvest of a facial allograft.

Methods: Anthropometric measurements of both soft and bone tissue were recorded in 5 cryopreserved human heads to compare conventional analogue measurements with digital measurements obtained from 3-dimensional (3D) reconstructions produced using AYRA software. To test the degree of correlation between both measuring methods, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was applied to each pair of measurements.

Facial transplantation: a concise update.

Objectives: Update on clinical results obtained by the first worldwide facial transplantation teams as well as review of the literature concerning the main surgical, immunological, ethical, and follow-up aspects described on facial transplanted patients.

Study Design: MEDLINE search of articles published on "face transplantation" until March 2012.

Results: Eighteen clinical cases were studied.