Safe and consistent outcomes of successfully combining breast surgery and abdominoplasty: an update.

Background: Combined cosmetic procedures have become increasingly popular. One of the most common combinations of cosmetic procedures includes abdominoplasty and cosmetic breast surgery. The shortened recovery and financial savings associated with combined surgery contribute to the increased demand for these combined surgeries.

The use of negative-pressure therapy and skin grafting in the treatment of soft-tissue defects over the Achilles tendon.

Management of soft-tissue defects over the Achilles tendon presents specific challenges to the plastic surgeon. Primary closure or local flaps are often not feasible repair options for such wounds, and many of these patients may be poor candidates for free-tissue transfer secondary to their comorbidity. In this case series, the use of negative-pressure therapy in the preoperative period to prepare the wound bed for placement of a split-thickness skin graft and in the immediate postoperative period as a dressing for the graft was successfully used in 3 patients with soft-tissue defects over the Achilles tendon with exposed tendon.