Treatment of trunk defects using perforator flaps: A case series introducing suprascapular artery perforator flap.

This case series explores the efficacy of freestyle perforator flaps, including the newly introduced suprascapular artery perforator flap (SSAP), in reconstructing trunk defects. Over a five-year period, 24 perforator flap procedures were performed on 19 patients, primarily for defect reconstruction after skin tumor and ulcer resections. Flap design was customized using preoperative doppler ultrasound and they were then transferred to defects in a V-Y or propeller fashion.

[Perforator based flaps of lateral thoracic artery (LTAP) and thoracodorsal artery (TDAP) for axillary reconstruction in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa].

Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory disease of apocrine gland-bearing skin, especially in the axilla. The coverage of large defects in the region of the axilla after radical resection poses a challenge to reconstructive surgery. The lateral chest offers, among others, two options for perforator flaps: the thoracodorsal artery perforator flap and the lateral thoracic artery perforator flap.

Spontaneous rupture of the left extensor pollicis longus-, extensor digitorum- and extensor digiti minimi tendons: a case report.

This case report describes a patient who experienced closed simultaneous rupture of the left extensor pollicis longus (EPL)-, extensor digitorum (ED) and extensor digiti minimi (EDM) tendons.

Is haptic feedback necessary to microsurgical suturing? Comparative study of 9/0 and 10/0 knot tying operated by 24 surgeons.

Robotically assisted telemanipulators are often criticised for their lack of direct haptic feedback. However, robotically assisted microsurgical sutures have already been achieved successfully. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that haptic feedback is not necessary in microsurgery.

A newborn with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia and an unusually severe phenotype.

Unlabelled: Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), associated with arteriovenous malformations, is a genetic disease of the vascular system with a frequency of approx. 1:10,000. Genetic diagnosis serves to identify individuals at risk of developing the disease and is a useful tool for genetic counselling purposes.

Novel mutations in the ENG and ACVRL1 genes causing hereditary hemorrhagic teleangiectasia.

Hereditary haemorrhagic teleangiectasia (HHT) is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder characterised by cutaneous and mucosal telangiectasias, epistaxis and arteriovenous malformations in lung, liver, central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. Mutations in the genes for endoglin (ENG) and for activin A receptor type II-like kinase 1 (ACVRL1) have been identified to cause HHT. We performed molecular diagnosis in clinically affected probands of 52 HHT families and detected mutations in 34 cases.