Single center experience with percutaneous endovascular repair of superior vena cava syndrome.

Objectives: To demonstrate short-term effectiveness and long-term efficacy of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) with or without adjunctive therapy in treatment of superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS).

Background: Recently, PTA with or without adjunctive therapy has evolved as first-line therapy for SVCS. Despite growing evidence for PTA with or without adjunctive therapy, there are little data reflecting its short- and long-term outcomes.

Refinement of rhinoplasty with lipoinjection.

Background: The most common aesthetic defects after rhinoplasty are small dorsal irregularities observed mainly in patients with thin dorsal nasal skin. Many techniques have been used in attempts to prevent perceptible irregularities and sharp edges of bone and cartilage in these patients. Adipose tissue transplantation has been used widely in aesthetic surgery as a surgical method to correct surface depression or to augment soft tissue.

Securing nasal tip rotation through suspension suture technique.

Background: Multiple techniques have been described to produce tip rotation in rhinoplasty, including the use of sutures, a technique popularized by several authors and shown to be predictable, controllable, and nondestructive. The authors describe a simple procedure for nasal tip rotation with a suture suspension technique through a closed method that allows the nasal tip to be rotated while maintaining its appropriate position.

Methods: In each case, after the authors performed standard rhinoplasty techniques, the osteocartilaginous junction was used as an anchor for their suture suspension technique.