Acellular dermal matrix imaging features in breast reconstructive surgery: a pictorial review.

Acellular dermal matrices (ADMs) are biological engineered tissues, which may provide an immunologically inert scaffold in breast reconstruction. Since the literature on imaging features of ADMs is limited, radiologists must be aware of the common imaging appearances of ADM, to differentiate normal conformation from residual or recurrent disease. Our purpose is to review the current role of ADMs in implant-based breast reconstruction, describing the normal imaging findings at ultrasound, mammography, and MRI also considering the possible changes over time.

Reconstruction Approach to a Rare Case of Acquired Scrotal Giant Muscular Hamartoma.

Acquired scrotal giant muscular hamartoma is an uncommon benign lesion with fewer than 10 documented cases all over the world. It is characterized by a proliferation of dermal smooth muscle bundles of scrotum dartos fascia. The authors report a rare case of acquired scrotal giant muscular hamartoma, which occurred in a 70-year-old severely obese and diabetic man presenting with a progressive scrotal enlargement and swelling in the last year, causing marked reduction in quality of life and cosmetic problems.

Bergamo 3D Rhinoplasty Software: Select, Store, and Share Surgical Maneuvers in a Three-Dimensional Nasal Model.

Background: Rhinoplasty is considered the most challenging chapter of plastic surgery due to its variability and the continuing evolution of surgical maneuvers. Worksheets became essential to unequivocally record surgical steps and to demonstrate their reciprocal effects/interactions during the follow-up period. After 1989, no other software was created to upgrade the Gunter Rhinoplasty Diagrams, the forefather and benchmark of the rhinoplasty "virtual" worksheet maker.

Quality of life of patients who undergo breast reconstruction after mastectomy: effects of personality characteristics.

Background: Reconstruction after mastectomy has become an integral part of breast cancer treatment. The effects of psychological factors on quality of life after reconstruction have been poorly investigated. The authors examined clinical and personality characteristics related to quality of life in patients receiving reconstructive surgery.

Junior plastic surgeon's confidence in aesthetic surgery practice: a comparison of two didactic systems.

The importance of residents' training in aesthetic surgery and the need for acquiring confidence in performing cosmetic procedures is an established knowledge. A survey was done in two different training systems to evaluate the experience of junior plastic surgeons in performing four common aesthetic surgery procedures at the end of their residency. The first system guarantees a theoretical background and a certain number of aesthetic procedures to be performed by the trainee, in contrast to the second system where mainly theoretical knowledge in cosmetic surgery is warranted to residents.

Distally based fasciocutaneous sural flap for foot reconstruction: a retrospective review of 10 years experience.

Background: The treatment of soft tissue defects of the foot is a problem mainly connected to the thickness of the coverage tissues, to the poor circulation, and to the frequent involvement of muscle, tendon, and bone. The authors present their experience with the sural flap, also in some particular cases.

Materials And Methods: The authors treated 33 patients for small- and medium-size defects of the foot, caused by work, home, and road accidents, and by venous or diabetic ulcers.

Abdominoplasty after weight loss in morbidly obese patients: a 4-year clinical experience.

Background: Morbid obesity is associated with various co-morbidities. With the significant weight loss, new dysfunctions arise, and prior body contour disorders start to severely affect the patient's quality of life. The abdominal apron is generally the greater and the first disturbance faced by the post-bariatric patient.

Aesthetic role of the surgically rebuilt inframammary fold for implant-based breast reconstruction after mastectomy.

The inframammary fold (IMF) represents one of the most important anatomic landmarks in defining a woman's breast ptosis and inferior quadrant shape. Therefore it is important to preserve it, if this is oncologically safe, at the time of excisional surgery. If it is sacrificed, dislocated cranially or caudally, or there is a thick panniculus adiposus with a poor definition of the fold, it is necessary to recreate it.

Congenital mammary asymmetry. Classification and surgical treatment.

Aim Of The Study: The Authors intend to guide the choice of surgical treatment for mammary asymmetry, according to specific form of asymmetry.

Material And Methods: Possible types of symmetryzation surgery are listed. First Author's personal technique is described and some clinical cases are presented.

Surgical treatment of rhinophyma: a comparison of techniques.

Rhinophyma is a rare disease that primarily affects Caucasian men in the fifth to seventh decades of life, characterized by a progressive thickening of nasal skin, which produces a disfiguring soft-tissue hypertrophy of the nose. Severe cosmetic deformity and impairment of breathing may coexist, making the surgical treatment necessary. The authors are conscious that in literature there is not agreement about the ideal treatment of rhinophyma, nevertheless they wish to give their contribution according to their experience with different treatment modalities such as the scalpel, the electrocautery, the dermabrader, and the carbon dioxide laser.