Breast Augmentation in the Digital Era: The Power of Social Media in a Surgeon's New Practice.

Background: Opening a new practice is always challenging, and one of the main problems is how to engage patients. Most of them use social media to gather information about surgery and surgeons.

Objectives: The aim was to evaluate social media's impact on a new practice, compared with a long-standing practice run by the same surgeon.

A Misdiagnosed Desmoplastic Neurotropic Melanoma of the Scalp: A Challenging Case for the Pathologist and Surgeon.

Desmoplastic neurotropic melanoma (DNM) is a rare melanoma subtype that shows tropism for the nerves, perineural invasion correlates to higher rate of local recurrence, poorer prognosis and worse morbidity. Given the paucity of typical melanoma features, both clinical and pathological, this confusing skin cancer may act as a pretender, thus leading clinician to misdiagnosis and subsequent inappropriate conservative treatment. Sarcomatoid-like cells rearrangement and absence of pigmentation can lead towards sarcoma diagnosis, so specific skills are required to pathologist to properly recognize this melanoma subtype.

Current Surgical Therapy of Locally Advanced cSCC: From Patient Selection to Microsurgical Tissue Transplant. Review.

Among the non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) the squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most challenging for the surgeon. Local aggressiveness and a tendency to metastasize to regional lymph nodes characterize the biologic behavior. The variants locally advanced and metastatic require wide excision and node dissection.

Nutritional Support for Bariatric Surgery Patients: The Skin beyond the Fat.

Body contouring surgery after the massive weight loss due to bariatric surgery deals with different kinds of complications. The aim of this review is to analyze the role that some nutrients may play in tissue healing after surgery, thus helping plastic surgeons to improve the aesthetic and health outcomes in massive weight loss patients under a multidisciplinary approach. As a matter of fact, preoperative nutritional deficiencies have been shown for vitamins and minerals in a large percentage of post-bariatric patients.

Achilles Tendon Region Defects: Delayed Composite Anterolateral Thigh Flap With Stripping of Fascia Lata: A Case Series.

Unlabelled: Defects of the Achilles tendon that include the surrounding soft tissue represent a challenge due to complex functionality and biomechanics.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the functional and physical functioning score out-comes of patients following microsurgical reconstruction of the yarrow region, using a combination of objective, subjective, and semi-subjective measurements.

Methods: Between 2007 and 2018, 15 patients underwent delayed Achilles tendon region reconstruction with different anterolateral thigh flap types.

Are muscle fibres of body builders intrinsically weaker? A comparison with single fibres of aged-matched controls.

Aim: Skeletal muscles of Body Builders (BB) represent an interesting model to study muscle mass gains in response to high volume resistance training. It is debated whether muscle contractile performance improves in proportion to mass. Here, we aim to assess whether muscle hypertrophy does not occur at the expense of performance.