Is a coupled to the suitable for urethral-perineal reconstruction? Considerations about a relapsing urethral-cutaneous fistula condition.

This study highlights the effectiveness, in one surgical stage, of two combined local techniques for perineal fistula repair in a patient with spinal cord injury: the " and the " from the inferior gluteal fold. Unlike the traditional , we harvested a ; by definition, this is a flap with a narrow diffuse microvascular supply aimed in our case at shielding the neourethra and substituting the remaining scarred perineum. The urethroplasty technique adopted, the has been based on sculpting two opposing local cutaneous flaps circumscribing the fistulous cutaneous openings.

Burn scar lipofilling: immunohistochemical and clinical outcomes.

Over the past years, lipofilling has been used for many pathologies and sequelae; recently, its use has also widened for burn outcomes. A total of 93 burn scars were assessed (from September 2011 to February 2012). Half of scar area was treated through injection of adipose tissue harvested from subcutaneous fat and processed in accordance with the Coleman technique.