Efficacy and safety of far infrared radiation in lymphedema treatment: clinical evaluation and laboratory analysis.

Swelling is the most common symptom of extremities lymphedema. Clinical evaluation and laboratory analysis were conducted after far infrared radiation (FIR) treatment on the main four components of lymphedema: fluid, fat, protein, and hyaluronan. Far infrared radiation is a kind of hyperthermia therapy with several and additional benefits as well as promoting microcirculation flow and improving collateral lymph circumfluence.

A prospective study of medial sural artery perforator flap with computed tomographic angiography-aided design in tongue reconstruction.

Purpose: To investigate the application of the medial sural artery perforator flap in hemiglossectomy reconstruction and evaluate the value of preoperative computed tomographic angiography (CTA) for perforator location.

Patients And Methods: Nine patients received medial sural artery perforator flaps for tongue reconstruction from August 2013 to January 2014. Of the 9 patients, 5 were male and 4 were female, with a mean age of 51 years (range 22 to 67).

A novel design of the multilobed latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap to achieve primary donor-site closure in the reconstruction of large defects.

Background: The main drawback of the latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap for large defect repairs is the relatively small skin paddle size that can be raised to allow primary closure of the donor site. In this article, the authors describe a novel design of the flap using multiple separate skin paddles, with each paddle nourished by independent perforators, to repair very large defects while maintaining primary donor-site closure.

Methods: After the size of the defect was calculated, its total area was split into two or three skin paddles and marked on the back skin so that the largest width of each paddle did not exceed 8 cm.

[Effects of mouse NIH3T3 cells transfected with VEGF gene on neovascularization of ischemic flaps].

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of applying NIH3T3 cells transfected by VEGF gene to the treatment of ischemic random skin flaps.

Methods: Plasmid PcDNA3.1(-)/VEGF(165) containing VEGF gene was transduced into the mouse NIH3T3 cells by liposome.