Journal Scan: Journal of Hand Surgery

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

To clarify the mechanism of accentuated melanisation in non-syndromic solitary cafe-au-lait macules we used an enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to measure the concentration of melanogenic cytokines secreted by cultured keratinocytes and fibroblasts derived from the skins of the macules and compared them with those derived from normal people. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) was significantly increas...

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Hand prostheses that are currently available on the market are used by amputees to only a limited extent, partly because of lack of sensory feedback from the artificial hand. We report a pilot study that showed how amputees can experience a robot-like advanced hand prosthesis as part of their own body. We induced a perceptual illusion by which touch applied to the stump of the arm was experienc...

Journal of the Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/ 3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose: The reverse digital island flap is useful for the repair of various fingertip injur...

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Results: Older patient age at the time of transplant was a significant factor favorably affecting patient survival (P .031). Trends toward better survival rates were observed in those transplants performed more recently (P .063), in those patients with greater body weight (P .084), in those not hospitalized at the time of transplant (P .14), and in those without concomitant liver failure (P .12...

British Journal of Surgery