This is a study of 120 patients of either sex and all ages who had sustained deep burns of up to 40% of the total body surface area. Half the patients underwent early excision and skin autografting (i.e., within 4-7 days of sustaining burn injury) while the rest underwent delayed excision and skin autografting (i.e., within 1-4 weeks post-burn). Significant differences were found in favour of t...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, buccal mucosa grafts are the most successful method to reconstruct bulbar urethral strictures. Dorsal placement of the graft has been recently proposed, allowing the graft to be spread fixed on the tunica albuginea of the corporal bodies overlying the stricture. The dorsal graft is ingenious and represents a useful addition to the surgical armamentarium, since it offers a...

Early wound excision and grafting of burn wounds is regarded not only as the method of choice in speeding up the healing process in deep burns, but also limits contracture and infection, On the other hand, smoking has generally been implicated in the delay of the healing process in a variety of surgical procedures, In this study we report the outcome of a cross-sectional study of all the 39...

OBJECTIVES To share our experience of an extensive calvarial reconstruction in a severely burn-injured, elderly patient in a 2-stage procedure utilizing a novel biodegradable temporizing matrix (NovoSorb BTM), followed by autograft. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 66-year-old patient with 75% full-thickness burns, including 7% total body surface area head and neck, with calvarial exposure of approxim...

Background: Tympanoplasty (TP) is a surgical procedure that aims to repair a persistently perforated eardrum via grafting. Different surgical techniques and graft materials were used for TP with variable success rates. Purpose: This study aims to determine predictors of failure of TP and compare different graft materials used. Materials and Methods: Retrospective review of all the medical recor...

A 12-year-old child presented to us with an avulsion injury left lower limb 6 hours following road traffic accident. On examination, the patient had avulsion of skin from the anterolateral surface of the thigh and circumferential skin avulsion extending from knee joint to the foot (figure 1). The non-viable avulsed skin was debrided till the fresh bleeding edges were obtained. The avulsed skin ...

Subclavian artery (SCA) perforation is a rare complication while performing SCA intervention. In our present report, a 73-year-old female, with stenosis of the left SCA and situs inversus, presented with exercise-induced left arm weakness. The SCA stenosis was treated with direct stenting with a balloon-expansible Express LD 10×25 mm stent. However, it caused iatrogenic SCA perforation and hemo...

BACKGROUND Mc Indoe vaginoplasty is one of the mostly performed surgical interventions in Mullerian agenesis. CASE PRESENTATIONS We present our experience on the use of a new designed vaginal stent that was coated with silicone in two mullerian agenesis cases who had Mc Indoe vaginoplasty. Both full thickness and splitt thickness skin graft were used with the stent. No graft loss or hyperthro...

Tourniquets are routinely used during the excising and grafting of burn wounds located on the limbs in order to decrease blood loss. It has been postulated that the exsanguination of extremities by using Esmarch bandages might further reduce blood loss. However, there are concerns about a decrease in graft quality when Esmarch bandages are applied. The purpose of this prospective, double-blinde...

Nowadays laser is extensively used in various industrial, communicative, medical, and other fields. Using laser in medicine has enabled physicians to perform the most accurate and finest operations within few minutes. Non-observance of safety points during laser performance could be seriously harmful for the medical staff and the patient. Therefore, in order to prevent the possible damage of th...