What We Learned from Performing the Inverse Malek Procedure to Repair Bilateral Cleft Lips and Palates: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.

: This study reviews the surgical and functional outcomes of children diagnosed with a bilateral cleft lip and palate and treated by the same surgical team following specific surgical protocols 18 years after surgery and during the follow-up. : Based on a single-center retrospective design, demographic and surgical data were gathered by the authors from international institutions. Most of the data were quantitative in nature, and descriptive statistical and non-parametric tests were employed for analysis.

Retrospective Evaluation of Progenitor Biological Bandage Use: A Complementary and Safe Therapeutic Management Option for Prevention of Hypertrophic Scarring in Pediatric Burn Care.

Progenitor Biological Bandages (PBB) have been continuously applied clinically in the Lausanne Burn Center for over two decades. Vast translational experience and hindsight have been gathered, specifically for cutaneous healing promotion of donor-site grafts and second-degree pediatric burns. PBBs constitute combined Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products, containing viable cultured allogeneic fetal dermal progenitor fibroblasts.

Lower lumbar back pain occurring with transient hip osteoporosis: complication of prolonged suffering and neck of femur fracture in a 24-year-old pregnant patient.

Six days after a normal delivery, a 24-year-old woman with atraumatic lumbosacral pain radiating to the left groin was referred to the orthopaedic surgeon due to worsening pain and impossible load bearing on the left lower limb. Standard pelvic radiographs revealed an unstable displaced left neck of femur (NOF) fracture. A CT scanner and MRI showed diffuse osteopaenia of the left proximal femur and the corresponding acetabulum.