Treatment of facial haemangiomas: the present status of surgery.

Although conservative management is usually proposed for haemangiomas occurring in infancy, the presence of these tumours on the face may result in severe complications and provide an indication for treatment. In this paper, we report 35 patients who underwent surgical treatment for facial haemangiomas. The series consists of 23 females and 12 males, ranging in age from 2.

[Microsurgery and esthetic considerations. Two cases of heel reconstruction].

With two case reports of heel reconstruction on female patients the authors report the advantages and drawbacks of the two main types of reconstruction: free or regional flaps. Regional flaps are technically easy and reliable but their aesthetic after-effects on the donor site may be disabling, specially on the leg of a female patient. Microsurgery is technically more difficult and presents more complications specially on the lower limb.

Limits and indications of the dorsal transposition flap: critical evaluation of 15 cases.

The dorsal transposition flap was used in 15 cases of distal fingertip amputation. The amputations were either oblique ulnar, oblique radial, oblique palmar, or transverse. Two flaps developed partial necrosis.

[Breast reconstruction after breast cancer: a review of a 12-year-long experience].

The experience of 428 mammary reconstructions (MR) performed by the same surgeon, evaluated more than two years after surgery, enable the authors to try to determine possible correlations between results of MR and methods employed. Antibiotic prevention and tissue expansion only appear to have a significant influence on MR issue, whereas capsular contracture and aesthetic result did not seem correlated with prior radiotherapy or texture of the wall implant. This study confirms the low morbidity of MR.