OBJECTIVES To review a series of nasal reconstructive procedures in elderly patients, and to discuss management issues related to reconstructing nasal defects in patients 80 years and older. DESIGN Retrospective review identifying patients 80 years and older undergoing significant nasal reconstructive surgery. SETTING University and private practice settings. PATIENTS Patients 80 years an...

The list of indications to adjuvant radiation therapy for breast cancer patients was extended in recent years, regardless the type reconstruction. Surgeons and radiologists have choose most appropriate sequence reconstruction reduce risk complications. Radiotherapy is one main factors causing complications undergoing reconstruction, vice versa, implant might hinder radiotherapy, preventing prop...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gyenceology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel 2Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 3Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery, Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA 4Department of Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery and Urogynaecology, Sydney Medical School Ne...

Cosmetic surgery is a surgical expertise that aims at correcting or improving body imperfections. These may be congenital, acquired, due to illness, or due to traumatic or para-physiological events such as aging. Cosmetic surgery also includes surgical procedures requested by patients to improve their appearance. In this regard, cosmetic surgery differs from reconstructive surgery, which deals ...

Penile and urethral reconstructive surgical procedures are used to treat a variety of urologic diagnoses. Urethral stricture disease can lead to progressive lower urinary tract symptoms and may require multiple surgical procedures to improve patient's symptoms. Male stress urinary incontinence is associated with intrinsic sphincter deficiency oftentimes associated with radical prostatectomy. Me...

of an ectopic, overly-descended superior parathyroid adenoma in both primary and reoperative parathyroid surgery. Methods: A prospective analysis of consecutive patients undergoing parathyroid surgery in a tertiary endocrine surgery practice from March 2004 to April 2013 was undertaken. All patients undergoing curative primary or reoperative surgery for single-gland parathyroid adenomas were id...

Charles Du Qin1, Sujata Saha1, Ryan Meacham2, Sandeep Samant2, Jon P Ver Halen3,* and John YS Kim1 1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2Department of OtolaryngologyHead and Neck Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 3Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Previous studies describing the cumulative failure rate after reconstructive surgery in patients with inflammatory bowel disease have been restricted to specific hospitals, and the generalizability of these results in a population-based setting is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the cumulative failure rate and risk factors for failure after reconstructive s...