Full-thickness palpebral reconstruction is a challenge for most surgeons. The complex structures composing the eyelid must be reconstructed with care both for functional and cosmetic reasons. It is possible to find in literature different methods to reconstruct either the anterior or posterior lamella, based on graft or flaps.
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February 2013
Breast reconstructions are plastic surgeries that female patients, who have undergone mastectomies, are increasingly using. While the morphological results are appreciated by patients themselves as being more and more satisfactory, results in terms of sensitivity remain uncertain and depend on type of reconstruction used. The chest wall skin already desensitized by mastectomy and exposed to radiotherapy presents disturbance of blood supply and innervation, likely responsible for impaired local thermoregulation that can easily lead to thermal burn injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Lipofilling is now performed to improve the breast contour, after both breast-conserving surgery and breast reconstruction. However, injection of fat into a previous tumor site may create a new environment for cancer and adjacent cells. There is also no international agreement regarding lipofilling after breast cancer treatment.
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February 2012
This case report is of a 47-year-old woman who suffered a ballistic chest trauma with severe left hemothorax and heart wound. She was treated in emergency for the collapse by heart surgery. Then the coverage for her soft thorax tissue loss was done by an ipsilateral musculocutaneous latissimus dorsi pedicled flap.
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August 2011
Introduction: Breast rupture is an uncommon event that has become more frequent from the 1980s, with the generalisation of the seat belt, so that we can now speak of seat belt related injuries. The trauma is often forgotten and leaves a fibrous band in the breast as only mark. In this way, the breast can be deformed by the scar as much as the retraction is important.
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April 2013
Introduction: Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by the recurring development of necrotizing and painful ulcers and therefore, often misinterpreted. This condition can simulate fulminant infection, particularly after surgery. The presentation is often impressive in extensive ulcerations and scarring and lead to significant sequelae.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTissue engineering of peripheral nerves has seen an increasing interest over the last years and, similarly to many other fields of regenerative medicine, great expectations have risen within the general public to its potential clinical application in the treatment of damaged nerves. However, in spite of the scientific advancements, applications to the patients is still very limited and it appears that to optimize the strategy for the tissue engineering of the peripheral nerves in the clinical view, researchers have to strive for a new level of innovation which will bring together (in a multitranslational approach) the main pillars of tissue engineering: namely (1) microsurgery, (2) cell and tissue transplantation, (3) material science, and (4) gene transfer. This review paper provides an overview of these four key approaches to peripheral nerve tissue engineering.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFErbBs are a family of receptors involved in the trophic maintenance of Schwann cells. Little is known about their expression changes during peripheral nerve regeneration. The aim of this study was thus to investigate variations in ErbBs after end-to-end and end-to-side nerve regeneration in the rat median nerve model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe assessment of recovery of the neuromuscular function following nerve lesion and repair is one of the main goals of peripheral nerve researchers. The forelimb model has recently seen an increase in its employment for experimental nerve repair studies especially because of the availability of the grasping test for assessing the functional recovery of one of its major nerves, the median nerve. Nerve repair studies sometimes require the use of more than one nerve to simulate severe clinical situations and, in this case, the ulnar nerve is often used together with the median nerve.
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December 1970
Arch Ital Otol Rinol Laringol Patol Cervicofacc
October 1970
Arch Ital Otol Rinol Laringol Patol Cervicofacc
March 1969
Ann Laringol Otol Rinol Faringol
May 1969
Otorinolaringol Ital
May 1969
Arch Ital Otol Rinol Laringol Patol Cervicofacc
January 1970
Arch Ital Otol Rinol Laringol Patol Cervicofacc
May 1969
Arch Ital Otol Rinol Laringol Patol Cervicofacc
April 1969