Plastic and reconstructive surgery. The hand--II.

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...

Hypotension in Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery

to 60m.m.Hg. and with no ill effects at the end of the anaesthesia and the tremination of the operation the drops of the serum which contains 15mg. Wyamin will be in­creased to rise the blood pressure, now if the anaesthetic drug is Halothane recovery is quick and if Ether is used it is a little pro­longed. If while operating there is need for further injection of Adrenaline solution in the ope...

Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery