Utilization of the internal mammary perforators as the recipient vessels for microsurgical breast reconstruction: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.

Background: The selection of reliable recipient vessels is essential for successful free tissue transfer. The use of internal mammary intercostal perforators (IMAPs), instead of the internal mammary vessels as the recipient vessels, has been described in breast reconstruction. Debates exist regarding the reliability of these perforators as recipient vessels because of their variability in location and caliber.

Oncoplastic techniques: Attitudes and changing practice amongst breast and plastic surgeons in Great Britain.

Purpose: The availability, acceptability and practice of oncoplastic surgery has increased over the last 5 years. This study aims to describe how the breast and plastic surgical workforce has adapted to provide oncoplastic breast surgery.

Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to members of the Association of Breast Surgery and BAPRAS, and results compared to a survey completed in 2010.

Aberrant facial flushing following monobloc fronto-facial distraction.

Background: Patients with syndromic forms of craniosynostosis may experience functional problems such as raised intracranial pressure, proptosis, obstructive sleep apnoea and failure to thrive. The monobloc fronto-facial advancement with osteogenic distraction is increasingly used to correct these functional problems in one procedure as well as improve appearance. The authors report the phenomenon of post operative aberrant facial flushing - an unusual and previously unreported complication of the procedure.

Clinicopathological parameters, recurrence, locoregional and distant metastasis in 115 T1-T2 oral squamous cell carcinoma patients.

The incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma remains high. Oral and oro-pharyngeal carcinomas are the sixth most common cancer in the world. Several clinicopathological parameters have been implicated in prognosis, recurrence and survival, following oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Multiple-site osteosarcomas of the jaw in a single patient. A true case of a metachronous lesion?

A case of multiple-site osteosarcomas in the jaw of a 56-year-old patient is reported. The disease occurred consecutively at three different sites (left maxilla, left mandible, right mandible) separated by time intervals of 12 and 18 months, respectively. Metachronous osteosarcomas of the long bones is a rare form of osteosarcoma and implies multiple lesions appearing at different times, each one behaving clinically as a primary lesion.