A 70-year-old man with complicated cruris fracture, treated with an arthrodesis and skin transplantation, complained about persistent pain of the right ankle and skin rashes. Bone and leukocyte scintigraphy were performed because osteomyelitis was suspected. Bone scintigraphy showed abnormal uptake in the ankle. Leukocyte scintigraphy showed only multiple hot spots in the soft tissue. A cutaneo...

Lateral labial melanocytic nevus or mole has cosmetic value among young or middle aged Iranian ladies particularly those with fair complexion. I describe auto transplantation of a melanocytic nevus from a remote area of the body to lateral labial skin. After selection of a 3-mm nevus, both donor and recipient sites were anesthetized. A punch with a diameter comparable to the diameter of t...

Skin involvement in multiple myeloma (MM) has been described, but is uncommon.1-4 It usually presents in the form of plasmacytoma or nodular skin lesions that involve a well-demarcated area of the skin. We describe a case of unusual cutaneous involvement in a patient with relapsed MM after nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) that presented as a diffuse erythematous ...

BACKGROUND This study is aimed at evaluating the operation techniques and clinical significance of free flap transplantation combined with skin grafting and vacuum sealing drainage (VSD) in repairing severe traumatic extensive circumferential or semi-circumferential soft-tissue defects of the lower leg. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty patients with severe lower leg injuries were treated by free f...

BACKGROUND The possibility that allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation performed across the ABO blood group-barrier is associated with an increase of graft-versus-host disease, in particular endothelial damage, has not been elucidated so far. For this reason, we investigated the level of endothelial cell chimerism after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in order to ...

269 K .T., a 76-year-old woman, was diagnosed with stage IIA multiple myeloma in 2007 when she presented with severe back pain. K.T. underwent kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive surgery to relieve compression fractures, followed by eight cycles of lenalidomide with a good response. Peripheral blood stem cells were collected after mobilization with filgrastim and plerixafor. She was admitted to t...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation (LT) increases the risk of de novo malignancies including skin cancers. However, risk factors for this type of cancers have not been well studied. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of skin cancer in LT recipients, and to identify the risk factors of this type of cancer. METHODS We identified all adult patients who underwent LT and developed de novo skin c...

One of the most common methods of skin defect repairing is the use of a skin graft. It is simple and reliable technique, although sometimes it is not totally successful due to hematoma and seroma formation between the skin graft and the recipient bed. Here in, we present a method to secure the skin grafts using a surgical sponge with two running sutures. This technique ensures high survival rat...

mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of rare mostly autosomal recessive metabolic and genetic disorders. because of the high rate of consanguinity, they are not uncommon in our population. clinical diagnosis is not difficult for experienced physicians, but it is not enough for treatment and prevention measures in the future pregnancies. so, it is necessary to detect the type of mps by measurement ...