Nasal Filling in Plastic Surgery Practice: Primary Nasal Filling, Nasal Filling for Post-rhinoplasty Defects, Rhinoplasty After Hyaluronidase Injection in Dissatisfied Nasal Filling Patients.

Background: Nasal filling has gained popularity in plastic surgery practice and strengthened the surgeon's hand. Mild deformities of the nose can be treated with nasal filling instead of rhinoplasty, or small contour irregularities following surgical rhinoplasty can be corrected by dermal filler injections. It is a significant advantage of hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers that they can be dissolved with hyaluronidase in case of the patient dislikes the appearance and desires a surgical rhinoplasty.

Metatarsal artery perforator-based propeller flap.

Soft-tissue defects of the distal foot that involve an exposed tendon and bone demonstrate a reconstructive challenge for plastic surgeons. This report investigates the feasibility and reliability of metatarsal artery perforator (MAP)-based propeller flap for reconstruction of the distal foot soft-tissue defects. Between July 2011 and June 2012, six patients underwent distal foot reconstruction with seven MAP-based propeller flaps.

Comparing various surgical delay methods with ischemic preconditioning in the rat TRAM flap model.

Both surgical delay and ischemic preconditioning (IP) have been shown to be effective in improving the survival of flaps. We used a variety of flap delay methods and IP to increase the surviving area of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap in rats, and the results are compared in between. A 6-× 3-cm-sized TRAM flap in 40 Wistar rats was allocated into five groups.