Body contouring in the male weight loss population: assessing gender as a factor in outcomes.

Background: Growing numbers of men are presenting for consultation and potential postbariatric body contouring surgery. Due to concerns about whether men might have increased rates of complications or dissatisfaction with aesthetic surgery, the authors assessed their clinical experience with male patients.

Methods: The authors examined male patients in their prospective database who had undergone body-contouring surgery.

Mammographic changes after fat transfer to the breast compared with changes after breast reduction: a blinded study.

Background: : One issue in the adoption of autologous fat transfer to the breast is concern over mammographic changes that may obscure cancer detection. The authors compared mammographic changes following fat grafting to the breast with changes seen after breast reduction.

Methods: : Twenty-seven women who had normal preoperative mammograms were treated with fat grafting to the breast, including admixing of autologous adipose stem cells with the fat graft, for cosmetic augmentation.

Carotid rupture following electrical injury: a report of two cases.

Electrical injuries often result in extensive tissue damage where vascular damage may occur and result in thrombosis and spontaneous rupture of blood vessels. Rupture of the brachial, radial, ulnar, internal mammary, and obturator arteries has been reported in the literature. The authors present two cases of carotid artery rupture following high-voltage electrical injuries.