Rib cartilage grafting in upper limb surgery: an overview.

Introduction: Used routinely in maxillofacial reconstructive surgery, the chondrocostal graft is also used in hand surgery. The purpose of this overview was to analyze at long follow-up the radiological and histological evolution of this autograft, in the hand and wrist surgery.

Materials And Methods: Since 1992, 144 patients have benefitted from a chondrocostal autograft: 116 osteoarthritis of the thumb carpometacarpal joint, 18 radioscaphoid arthritis, six articular malunions of the distal radius, four kienbock, and four traumatic loss of cartilage of the PIP joint.

Rib cartilage graft for posttraumatic or degenerative arthritis at wrist level: 10-year results.

Background Posttraumatic arthritides of the radiocarpal joint, secondary to scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse (SNAC), scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC), or Kienböck disease or in cases of intraarticularmalunion of the distal radius, are classically solved by some type of arthrodesis procedure. Osteochondral grafting provides a possible motion-sparing option that can diminish pain in the active patient. Description of Technique A chondrocostal graft harvested from the ninth rib was inserted and fixed with a plate in place of the articular defect in cases of a malunited intra-articular distal radius fracture (7 cases) or to replace the proximal pole of the scaphoid in cases of SNAC or SLAC (18 cases).

[Traps in tendon and joint injuries at hand level].

The patient with an injury of the hand has unfortunally not choose the type of injury, the time and the medical doctor; this patient is not sick but injuried. Even if this is an open or closed trauma, begnin or not, the patient is going to discover dressing, immobilisation and time to recover function with a "new hand" ..

[PIP breast implants: a series of 217 explants].

On 29 march 2010, the French authorities (Afssaps) issued a health alert concerning breast implants manufactured by the company Poly Implant Prothèse, because of a high rupture rate. Marketing authorization was suspended and the use of PIP breast implants was prohibited. In our hospital department, 630 patients had received these prostheses since 2001.

Dermal equivalents in oncology: benefit of one-stage procedure.

Background: In oncology, dermal equivalent may be indicated to cover losses of substance related to skin tumors or after the removal of skin flaps.

Objective: To report our experience of two dermal equivalents, Matriderm 1 mm with a one-stage graft (DE1) and Integra DL with a two-stage graft (DE2) in oncology.

Patients And Method: Retrospective, single-center study involving 16 patients.

Preoperative imaging in the planning of deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap surgery.

Breast reconstruction with adipocutaneous free flap from the abdominal wall combines the benefits of abdominoplasty to those of a prosthesis-free breast reconstruction. The deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap is supplied by intramuscular perforators from the deep inferior epigastric artery (DIEA). It consists of the dissection of perforating branches of the DIEA within the rectus abdominis muscle, thus sparing both muscle and fascia.

[Articular reconstructions by a costochondral grafting (or osteochondral costal grafting)].

We describe a novel technique of costochondral autografting for the treatment of trapeziometacarpal arthritis, radioscaphoid osteoarthritis, malunion of the distal end of the radius, and osteoarticular loss of the MP joints of long fingers. The costal graft harvest technique is always the same. A 5-cm horizontal incision is made over the 9th rib, and the rib is exposed at the osteocartilaginous junction.

[Neurectodermal differentiation of extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma: a classical feature?].

Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (EMC) is a phenotypically and genotypically distinct entity with a protracted course. A documented case of an extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma characterized by a t(9; 17) (q22; q11) translocation with a neuroendocrine and neural differentiation is reported.