Development of a brief screening measure of unmet supportive care needs (SCNS-P&C-6) in caregivers of people with high-grade glioma.

Purpose: Informal caregivers of people with high grade glioma (HGG) often have high levels of unmet support needs. Routine screening for unmet needs can facilitate appropriate and timely access to supportive care. We aimed to develop a brief screening tool for HGG caregiver unmet needs, based on the Supportive Care Needs Survey-Partners & Caregivers (SCNS-P&C).

Measuring serum oestrogen levels in breast cancer survivors using vaginal oestrogens: a systematic review.

Purpose: Vaginal oestrogens can be used to treat genitourinary symptoms in women with early breast cancer. Studies evaluating vaginal oestrogens have commonly measured serum oestrogen levels as a surrogate marker of safety, but methods vary. We sought to summarise the data on serum oestrogen measurement in women with breast cancer using vaginal oestrogens to better understand the methods, levels and reliability.

Split Anterolateral Thigh Flap: A New Classification of Anatomical Variants and a Surgical Planning Algorithm.

Background:  Split anterolateral thigh flap is a versatile reconstruction option, yet long underestimated as no practical perforator classification and no optimal strategy were present. Harvesting "capillary nonsizable perforators" could potentially expand flap splits to those with no existing multiple sizable perforators. Concerns over defect characteristics, recipient vessels, pedicle length, and split timing should all be weighted equally in designing the suitable flap.

A One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Pressure Ulcers: Whole-Buttock Fasciocutaneous Advancement Flap.

Background: Buttock pressure injuries can be difficult to treat. There are many choices of flaps to reconstruct these wounds, but few are large, technically simple, and easily recycled.

Aim And Objective: We are presenting our experience on surgical reconstruction of buttock pressure injuries using large whole-buttock fasciocutaneous flaps that are easily designed for ulcers regardless of location and size and are easily recycled for treatment of recurrences.

Psychometric assessment of the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology Questionnaire (CLEO) among female breast cancer survivors.

Objective: The Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology (CLEO) questionnaire was developed to measure concerns cancer survivors may have about late effects. The current study sought to assess the Concerns about Late Effects in Oncology's (CLEO) psychometric properties - factor structure, construct validity, discriminatory power, and internal consistency.

Methods: 147 breast cancer survivors completed a survey.

Training the Trainers in Microsurgery: A Success Story from Vietnam's Hanoi National Hospital of Odonto-stomatology.

Background: Microsurgery is a highly specialized skill that requires advanced training. This is a recount of the 12-year development of Hanoi National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology (NHOS) from a basic plastic surgery unit to a high-volume, subspecialized reconstructive center.

Methods: We present a 12-year retrospective account of the development of NHOS with a brief summary of microsurgical reconstructive outcomes.

Harvesting the anterolateral thigh flap with non-sizable perforators.

Background: The anterolateral thigh flap (ALT) has proven over time to be one of the best reconstructive workhorses due to its versatility and reliability. Without preoperative imaging, vascular anomalies such as having no sizable perforator are sometimes encountered during dissection. We propose a technique, based on a modified version of the traditional myocutaneous ALT to allow harvest of the flap based on non-sizable perforators.

Superficial temporal vessels, both anterograde and retrograde limbs, are viable recipient vessels for recurrent head and neck reconstruction in patients with frozen neck.

Background: Reconstruction of recurrent head and neck malignancy especially in the presence of a frozen neck is challenging. The superficial temporal vessels would be ideal as recipient vessels because they lie out of the previous surgical and radiation field.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective case-control study based on our database between January 2013 and June 2016.