For What It's Worth: Medical School Reputation in The Integrated Plastic Surgery Match.

Integrated Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency programs may use medical school reputation to help fill the gap of a pass/fail USMLE Step 1 in the match. The main objective of this manuscript was to consider if this shifting emphasis is warranted. Herein, a cross-sectional analysis of academic plastic surgeons found that medical school reputation did not predict career achievement.

Correlative vs. Causative Relationship between Neonatal Cranial Head Shape Anomalies and Early Developmental Delays.

Deformational plagiocephaly and craniosynostosis are two of the most common neonatal cranial head shape anomalies. Traditionally, both entities were thought to cause aesthetic concerns solely. Recently, many groups have demonstrated that both conditions are strongly associated with developmental delays.

Assessment of Deformational Plagiocephaly Severity and Neonatal Developmental Delay.

Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) in infants has been associated with developmental delay that can last until adolescence. Despite this association and a 5-fold increase in incidence of DP over the past 2 decades, there are currently no guidelines regarding screening for developmental delay or identification of which infants with DP are at the greatest risk of delay. A prospective, nonrandomized study was performed.

Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia With Eosinophilia Within a Vascular Malformation: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Objectives: Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) is a rare, benign microvascular proliferation tumor. The etiology of ALHE is unknown, though some hypothesize it occurs in reaction to focal trauma. This study presents a case of AHLE within a vascular malformation, its treatment, and a review of the literature.

Biomechanical assessment of fixation methods for segmental mandible reconstruction with fibula in the polyurethane model.

Background: A variety of plating techniques are employed by microsurgeons to provide rigid fixation for vascularized bone constructs of the mandible. The aim of this study was to biomechanically compare three commonly utilized plating techniques for rigid fixation of fibula bone flaps in reconstructing lateral segmental mandibular defects.

Materials And Methods: Polyurethane mandibles with 3-cm segmental defects were reconstructed using polyurethane fibula models.

Integrin-modulating therapy prevents fibrosis and autoimmunity in mouse models of scleroderma.

In systemic sclerosis (SSc), a common and aetiologically mysterious form of scleroderma (defined as pathological fibrosis of the skin), previously healthy adults acquire fibrosis of the skin and viscera in association with autoantibodies. Familial recurrence is extremely rare and causal genes have not been identified. Although the onset of fibrosis in SSc typically correlates with the production of autoantibodies, whether they contribute to disease pathogenesis or simply serve as a marker of disease remains controversial and the mechanism for their induction is largely unknown.