Corrigendum to: A New Suturing Method for Optimal Wound Healing: Technique and Experience.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/asjof/ojaa008.].

A New Suturing Method for Optimal Wound Healing: Technique and Experience.

Background: Wound closure utilizing barbed sutures has been associated with healing problems, such as thread extrusion, infection, and the increase of an inflammatory response around the scar.

Objectives: In our study, the senior author described a novel technique of skin incision and wound closure based on de-epithelization and bi-layer tension-free closure that minimizes complications.

Methods: In this retrospective study, the authors reviewed the evolution of wound healing for the novel technique developed by the senior author by analyzing clinical reports of 817 patients who underwent surgery for abdominoplasty or breast reduction utilizing power-assisted liposuction mammaplasty with the new incision and closure technique.

Power-Assisted Liposuction and Lipofilling: Techniques and Experience in Large-Volume Fat Grafting.

Background: Power-assisted liposuction and lipofilling (PALL) is a simple and reproducible surgical technique for large volume fat grafting.

Objectives: The authors share their 7-year experience with their large-volume fat transfer technique, PALL.

Methods: A total of 417 patients who underwent PALL-related surgeries involving the breast and buttock were evaluated in a retrospective study.

Brachioplasty by Power-Assisted Liposuction and Fat Transfer: A Novel Approach That Obviates Skin Excision.

Background: Current brachioplasty techniques include excisional surgery alone or in combination with liposuction. These techniques are associated with poor outcomes, such as residual contour deformities and unfavorable scarring.

Objectives: The authors proposed a new classification system and treatment algorithm for brachial ptosis and described their experience with power-assisted liposuction and lipofilling to treat brachial ptosis without excisional surgery.

The V-Plasty: A Novel Microsurgical Technique for Anastomosis of Vessels with Marked Size Discrepancy.

Background: The art of reconstructive microsurgery is still progressing after Carrel's original description of "vascular repair" in 1902. Reports of the successful repair of vessels smaller than 1 mm in diameter are currently commonplace. However, the technique of microvascular anastomosis to connect vessels with large diameter discrepancy, greater than 1 mm, has not yet been perfected.

Power-assisted gluteal augmentation: a new technique for sculpting, harvesting, and transferring fat.

Background: A simple and reproducible surgical technique for gluteal shaping and augmentation with autologous fat is needed.

Objectives: The authors describe a novel approach to large-volume gluteal augmentation that combines power-assisted liposculpting and fat harvesting of the zones around the buttock with autologous fat transfer.

Methods: One hundred ten patients who underwent gluteal augmentation were evaluated in a prospective study.

Immediate Large-Volume Grafting of Autologous Fat to the Breast Following Implant Removal.

Background: To optimize autologous breast augmentation, a simple and reproducible surgical approach that maximizes the volume of fat transferred to the breast while minimizing the number of sessions and the operating time is needed.

Objectives: The authors describe a novel approach for large-volume fat grafting to the expanded skin and subcutaneous tissue of the breast immediately after explantation, exchanging the volume provided by the implants with transplanted fat in a single session.

Methods: Eighty patients (160 breasts) undergoing explantation and autologous fat transfer were evaluated in a prospective study.

Power-Assisted Liposuction Mammaplasty (PALM): A New Technique for Breast Reduction.

Background: Resection and reshaping of the parenchyma are common procedures to produce a natural breast shape in reduction mammaplasty and mastopexy. The challenges of these practices include maintaining sensitivity of the nipple-areola complex (NAC), achieving upper-pole fullness, and preserving an adequate blood supply for patients with massive breast ptosis.

Objectives: The authors describe their experience with power-assisted liposuction mammaplasty (PALM), a novel technique for breast reduction.

Overcoming limitations of short scar minimal access cranial suspension facelift for enhanced rejuvenation.

The minimal access cranial suspension lift, a short-scar facelift, has been described to correct sagging and laxity of the lower and middle third of the face. It does not, however, fully address the neck or the lateral periorbital area frequently needing rejuvenation in most patients. Another shortcoming of the minimal access cranial suspension lift technique is visible scarring anterior to the temporal hairline that usually occurs despite the suggested surgical maneuvers consisting in zigzag beveled incisions.

Functional and Therapeutic Indications of Liposuction: Personal Experience and Review of the Literature.

Liposuction is the most common cosmetic surgical procedure worldwide. It has evolved from being designed primarily for body contouring to becoming essential adjunct to various other aesthetic procedures, greatly enhancing their outcome. Despite its hard clear differentiation between an aesthetic and therapeutic indication for some pathologic conditions, liposuction has been increasingly applied to a gamut of disorders as a therapeutic tool or to improve function.

Skin sparing/skin reducing mastectomy (SSM/SRM) and the concept of oncoplastic breast surgery.

Introduction: With the better understanding of breast cancer history and biology, improved diagnostic modalities and the shift towards minimally invasive surgeries, indications for prophylactic mastectomy, skin sparing or skin reducing mastectomies (SSM/SRM) with nipple areolar complex (NAC) preservation coupled with immediate breast reconstruction are gaining popularity. The authors share their experience and conception with mastectomy and immediate alloplastic breast reconstruction with the esthetic circumvertical mammoplasty pattern combined with the dermal barrier buttress flap.

Material And Methods: The described technique was performed for 28 patients presenting for mastectomy and immediate alloplastic breast reconstruction.

Preoperative assessment tool for the planning of inframammary incision and implant profile in breast augmentation.

When using the inframammary access incision for breast augmentation, careful planning is critical to allow the surgeon to set the inframammary fold (IMF) at the most optimal position, minimize scar visibility, and mitigate the main disadvantage of this approach. Current popular evaluation systems for breast augmentation include the High Five and Randquist systems and they base their calculations on inconsistent variables like skin stretch measurements. We propose a simple method that is not dependent on skin stretch measurements to properly determine implant size, profile, and position of the inframammary fold.

Refractory sickle cell leg ulcer: is heparan sulphate a new hope?

Patients with sickle cell disease are known to have recurrent lower extremity ulcers that have a high pain score and are resistant to conventional means of wound therapy. This study reports the successful use of synthetic heparan sulphate (Cacipliq20(®) , OTR3, Paris, France) in the treatment of a sickle cell ulcer that had failed to respond to several other means of treatment. Therapeutic success was assessed by complete wound coverage and vast improvement in pain score.

Stem cell facelift: between reality and fiction.

Stem cells are "big business" throughout medical technology, and their potential application in cosmetic procedures is no exception. One of the latest nonsurgical facial treatments (and new catchphrases) in plastic surgery is the "stem cell facelift." It is evident from the currently available scientific literature that the use of stem cell therapy for facial rejuvenation is limited to the theoretical induction of skin tightening and can in no way be equated to a facelift.

Reconstruction of blast injuries of the hand and upper limb.

Over recent years, hand surgeons in the Middle East and Arabic region have particularly had to deal with an increasing number of war blast injuries to the upper extremity, in the acute, subacute and chronic phases. Many have been referred from War Zone countries such as Iraq and, more recently, Syria, where the resources to treat such complex injuries are scarce. The present article is a comprehensive review of the basic principles of management of blast injuries based on the available literature merged with the authors' personal experience of these injuries.

Reverse tissue expansion by liposuction deflation for revision of post-surgical thigh scars.

Scars hypertrophy and widen when stretching mechanical forces are applied to resilient newly formed collagen before it reaches final maturity marring the final result of many surgical procedures and resulting in a clinical problem for many patients. Scar revision by surgical excision remains the traditional treatment for hypertrophic or widespread scars. It relies upon recruitment of local tissues for closure of the ensuing defect.

Barbed sutures "lunch time" lifting: evidence-based efficacy.

There is a growing trend nowadays for patients to seek the least invasive treatments possible with less risk of complications and downtime to correct rhytides and ptosis characteristic of aging. Nonsurgical face and neck rejuvenation has been attempted with various types of interventions. Suture suspension of the face, although not a new idea, has gained prominence with the advent of the so called "lunch-time" face-lift.

Wound cleansing, topical antiseptics and wound healing.

Quality of care is a critical requirement for wound healing and 'good' care of wounds has been synonymous with topical prevention and management of microbial contamination. Topical antiseptics are antimicrobial agents that kill, inhibit or reduce the number of microorganisms and are thought to be essential for wounds infection control. However, they have long and commonly been used on wounds to prevent or treat infection, the merits of antiseptic fluid irrigation have received little scientific study.

Vertical and horizontal coordinates of the nipple-areola complex position in males.

After massive weight loss, male breasts in particular are one of the most disturbing body regions and can be a difficult area to treat often requiring nipple-areola repositioning. The need for bilateral repositioning of the nipple-areola complex is also increasing in other surgical fields such as in female-to-male transsexual patients with large breasts and in patients with severe forms of gynecomastia. Proper configuration and localization of the nipple-areola complex requires both meticulous planning and a thorough understanding of the male anatomy and is essential in determining final aesthetic outcome.

Modulation of wound contracture alpha-smooth muscle actin and multispecific vitronectin receptor integrin alphavbeta3 in the rabbit's experimental model.

The myofibroblast, a major component of granulation tissue, is a key cell during wound healing, tissue repair and connective tissue remodelling. Persistence of myofibroblasts within a fibrotic lesion leads to excessive scarring impairing function and aesthetics. Various wound-healing cytokines can be modulated by topical application of active agents to promote optimal wound healing and improve scar quality.

Nonsurgical nonablative treatment of aging skin: radiofrequency technologies between aggressive marketing and evidence-based efficacy.

The gold standard treatment for the many aesthetic aspects of aging has for many years been surgery in its many forms. However, with increasing patient demand for cosmetic rejuvenation and with the strong desire and drive by patients to attain aesthetic enhancement with minimal risk and rapid recovery, there has been a strong surge inspiring the field of nonsurgical skin rejuvenation. Traditionally, most of the nonsurgical methods have centered around those that destroy the epidermis and cause a dermal wound, with resultant dermal collagen remodeling and secondary skin tightening and rhytid improvement.