Carbon footprint of non-melanoma skin cancer surgery.

Background: Climate change poses a significant global health threat and healthcare, including surgery, contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Efforts have been made to promote sustainability in surgery, but the literature on sustainability in plastic surgery remains limited.

Methods: A life-cycle analysis was used to assess and quantify the environmental emissions associated with three distinct reconstructive methods utilized in non-melanoma skin cancer surgery: direct closure, split-thickness skin graft, and full-thickness skin graft.

Prevalence and odds of anxiety and depression in cutaneous malignant melanoma: a proportional meta-analysis and regression.

Background: The psychological burden of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CM) is all-encompassing, affecting treatment adherence, recurrence and mortality. However, the prevalence and risk factors of anxiety and depression in CM remain unclear.

Objectives: To establish a benchmark pooled prevalence of anxiety and depression in CM, to provide magnitudes of association for clinical, therapeutic and demographic correlates, and to elucidate temporal trends in anxiety and depression from the time of diagnosis.

Free flaps for lower limb soft tissue reconstruction - A systematic review of complications in 'Silver Trauma' patients.

Background: There are 12.5 million people aged 65 years and older living in the UK. The annual incidence of open fracture is 30.

The association between atopic eczema and lymphopenia: Results from a UK cohort study with replication in US survey data.

Background: Lymphocyte skin homing in atopic eczema (AE) may induce lymphopenia.

Objective: To determine if AE is associated with lymphopenia.

Methods: We used UK primary care electronic health records (Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD) for a matched cohort study in adults (18 years+) (1997-2015) with at least one recorded lymphocyte count.

The prevalence and location of the posterior superior alveolar artery in the maxillary sinus wall: A preliminary computed-cone beam study.

The lateral wall of the maxillary sinus is supplied by the posterior superior alveolar artery (PSAA). It may be affected by trauma, pathology, or surgery performed to access or correct any fracture involving the maxillary sinus. This study analysed the prevalence and distance of the PSAA from the floor of the maxillary sinus in selected Southeast Asian patients.

Pancreas Donor Risk Index and Preprocurement Pancreas Suitability Score for Prediction of Pancreas Transplant Outcomes.

Objectives: The Pancreas Donor Risk Index and Preprocurement Pancreas Suitability Score were designed to assist in the evaluation of pancreases for transplant. Preprocurement Pancreas Suitability Score <17 and PancreasDonor Risk Index ≤1.57 were deemed ideal.