Randomized Controlled Trial: Acquisition of Basic Microsurgical Skills Through Smartphone Training Model.

Background: Microsurgery is essential in various surgical specialties, but learning these skills is challenging due to work hour limitations, patient safety concerns, documentation time, and ethical objections to practicing on live animals. This randomized controlled trial compares 2 microsurgical training models: the smartphone model and the microscope model.

Methods: Thirty students without prior microsurgery experience were randomized into 3 groups: control (CG), smartphone (SG), and microscope (MG).

Automated thermographic detection of blood vessels for DIEP flap reconstructive surgery.

Purpose: Inadequate perfusion is the most common cause of partial flap loss in tissue transfer for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. The current state-of-the-art uses computed tomography angiography (CTA) to locate the best perforators. Unfortunately, these techniques are expensive and time-consuming and not performed during surgery.

The evolution of breast reconstructions with free flaps: a historical overview.

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer among women and is responsible for the highest number of cancer-related deaths. Approximately 40% of the patients with breast cancer will undergo a mastectomy. Breast amputation is a lifesaving but mutilating procedure.

Dermal Nipple-Areola Complex Perfusion through Circumareolar Scars: A Delay Model in Two-Stage Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy.

Background: Nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) has evolved as a standard surgical option. The NSM complication rate remains high in large breasts. To reduce the risk of necrosis, several authors have proposed delayed procedures to enhance blood supply to the nipple-areola complex (NAC).

The ideal timing for revision surgery following an infected cranioplasty.

It is a challenge to define the ideal timing for revision surgery following an infected cranioplasty. Both healing of infected bone and preparedness of soft tissue must be considered. There is no gold standard regarding the timing of revision surgery and a lot of studies have contradictory findings.