Can a Single-Stage Approach Using a Dermal Regeneration Template Lead to Satisfactory Scalp Defect Reconstruction After Skin Cancer Excision?

Background: Large-defect reconstructive surgeries for skin cancer can be performed using different approaches. Integra Dermal Regeneration Template (DRT, Integra Life Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey, the United States) is a membrane utilized to fill skin defects, followed by second-stage surgery with a full-thickness skin graft or flap.

Purpose: To evaluate the frequency of success of the single-stage scalp reconstructive surgeries using the DRT membrane without second-stage surgery and its feasibility in practice.

Sight preserving orbital decompression: a novel multidisciplinary approach to managing severe proptosis in neurofibromatosis type 2.

We describe the importance of collaboration between multiple surgical specialties in managing a complex case of sight-threatening severe proptosis in a young woman with type 2 neurofibromatosis (NF2) complicated by pre-existing contralateral blindness. Trans-nasal and lateral orbital surgical approaches were aided by stereotactic navigation to debulk a large frontal/sphenoid wing meningioma, which had been exerting pressure onto the right globe and optic nerve. The patient made an excellent postoperative recovery along with preserved residual visual acuity, normal neurology and a good aesthetic outcome.

Argument for the conservative management of mandibular ameloblastomas.

Ameloblastoma is a rare, benign, odontogenic tumour that affects the mandible more commonly than the maxilla. Solid or multicytic variants are often resected and the defects reconstructed with a free flap. To establish the outcome after enucleation and application of Carnoy's solution, irrespective of histological subtype, we used the hospital's histology database to identify all the patients treated between 2001 and 2014 by one surgeon.

Single stage treatment of ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint using patient-specific total joint replacement and virtual surgical planning.

Ankylosis of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is a debilitating condition that can result in pain, trismus, and a poor quality of life. It can be caused by injury, infection, and rheumatoid disease. Current management includes gap arthroplasty, interpositional arthroplasty, and reconstruction.