Clinical and Healthcare Resource Use Outcomes between Dual-plane and Prepectoral Techniques in Implant-based Breast Reconstruction: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.

Unlabelled: This multicenter, retrospective study compared clinical outcomes and healthcare resource use in patients who underwent dual-plane (DP) or prepectoral (PP) implant-based breast reconstruction (IBR) after mastectomy in the United States.

Methods: Medical records were selected for patients at five sites undergoing immediate one-stage direct-to-implant (first hospitalization) or two-stage IBR (first and second hospitalization) using either DP or PP. Inverse probability of treatment weighting was used to adjust for potential confounders.

Influence of prostate volume and percent free prostate specific antigen on prostate cancer detection in men with a total prostate specific antigen of 2.6 to 10.0 ng/ml.

Purpose: Percent free prostate specific antigen and prostate specific antigen density have been independently shown to increase the specificity of prostate cancer screening in men with prostate specific antigen levels between 4.1 and 10.0 ng/ml.

Renal cell carcinoma local recurrences: impact of surgical treatment and concomitant metastasis on survival.

Objective: To analyse the survival benefit of resecting local recurrence (LR) of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the presence and absence of concomitant metastasis.

Patients And Methods: From 1989 to 2004 we identified 34 patients with LRs (2.9%) of the 1165 radical nephrectomies performed for T1-4N0M0 disease.

Orthognathic surgery: is there a future?

Background: Despite significant clinical advances in orthognathic surgery, a perceived decrease in recent years in the number of orthognathic cases was noted at the authors' institution. Word of mouth suggested that this phenomenon was region-wide. To explore this possible dichotomy, a one-page questionnaire was designed and sent to all plastic surgeons in the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and to all active practicing oral surgeons and orthodontists in the state of Ohio.