Patient Selection for Pedal Soft Tissue Augmentation.

Background: Pedal fat grafting has been shown to improve pain and functional impairment from forefoot fat pad atrophy.

Objectives: The authors aimed to determine if patient demographics and foot characteristics play a role in the level of impact that is achieved following surgery.

Methods: The authors performed a retrospective review of patients who received forefoot autologous fat injections for the treatment of pedal fat pad atrophy.

Undiagnosed Normocephalic Pancraniosynostosis Presenting as Bilateral Abducens Nerve Palsy.

Primary pancraniosynostosis is a rare variant of craniosynostosis in which the major cranial sutures prematurely fuse. Single-suture craniosynostosis is often recognized early in life due to an abnormal head shape. In contrast, primary pancraniosynostosis may be diagnosed later in life due to a grossly normal head shape and size.

A Report on the Representation of Women in Academic Plastic Surgery Leadership.

Background: The year 2017 marked the first year women comprised a majority of U.S. medical school matriculants.

Genetic and Functional Associations with Decreased Anti-inflammatory Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Induced Protein 3 in Macrophages from Subjects with Axial Spondyloarthritis.

Objective: Tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced protein 3 (TNFAIP3) is an anti-inflammatory protein implicated in multiple autoimmune and rheumatologic conditions. We hypothesized that lower levels of TNFAIP3 contributes to excessive cytokine production in response to inflammatory stimuli in axial spondyloarthritis (AxSpA). A further aim was to determine the immune signaling and genetic variation regulating TNFAIP3 expression in individual subjects.