The Paper Mache Bra: A Postsurgical Breast Taping Technique.

Little has been published about dressing the breast after surgery and the potential benefits of added support to the routine use of a nonwired bra postoperatively. We report a postsurgical breast taping method and suggest its use might help reduce minor postsurgical complications and subsequent impaired scarring.

Use of reflectance spectrophotometry to predict the response of port wine stains to pulsed dye laser.

Reflectance spectroscopy can be used to quantitate subtle differences in color. We applied a portable reflectance spectrometer to determine its utility in the evaluation of pulsed dye laser treatment of port wine stains (PWS) and in prediction of clinical outcome, in a prospective study. Forty-eight patients with PWS underwent one to nine pulsed dye laser treatments.

Reconstruction of nonhelical auricular defects with local flaps.

Background: The integrity of each of the components of the auricle is important for its overall aesthetic appearance. Cartilage-exposing nonhelical defects that are too large to be closed primarily without distorting the auricle may be reconstructed with local flaps.

Objective: The objective was to present our experience with the reconstruction of nonhelical medium-sized defects using a variety of simple, one-stage local flaps.

Treatment of angiokeratoma of Fordyce with pulsed dye laser.

Background: Angiokeratomas of Fordyce are typically asymptomatic vascular lesions characterized by blue-to-red papules with a scale surface, most often located on the scrotum. Although considered benign, the lesions may bleed, either spontaneously or secondary to rupture, leading to patient anxiety and social embarrassment.

Objective: The objective was to determine the safety and effectiveness of 585-nm pulsed dye laser for the treatment of angiokeratomas of Fordyce.

Significance of secondary ultrasonographic endometrial thickening in postmenopausal tamoxifen-treated women.

Background: Ultrasonography has a limited value in endometrial assessment for identification of endometrial pathologies in postmenopausal tamoxifen-treated patients.

Methods: We compared the rate of endometrial pathologies and the mean +/- SD of endometrial thickness diagnosed after the first and second transvaginal ultrasonographic studies performed on 55 postmenopausal tamoxifen-treated patients with secondary endometrial thickening (Group I). This rate was also compared with 46 similar patients without secondary thickening (Group II).