BACKGROUND Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in humans and the incidence continues to rise. Facial reconstruction after cutaneous tumour ablation is a challenging job and needs thorough knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of face skin, biomechanics of skin and muscles, design of local flaps and their blood supply. The objective of this study was to report the aesthetic results of sl...

Despite extensive investigations of the pulmonary circulation using both in vitro and in vitro preparations, few direct microcirculatory studies have been made. Consequently, the mechanisms involved in the response of the pulmonary microvasculature to changes in oxygen tension remain unclear. The present study represents the first direct observation of the responses in pulmonary microvessels to...

Received November 29, 2011, Revised May 3, 2012, Accepted for publication June 9, 2012 Corresponding author: Gyong Moon Kim, Department of Dermatology, St. Vincent’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 93 Jungbu-daero, Paldal-gu, Suwon 442-723, Korea. Tel: 82-31-249-7460, Fax: 82-31-242-8927, E-mail: gyongmoonkim@ catholic.ac.kr This is an Open Access article distri...

A new approach of reconstructing ungulate diet, the mesowear method, was recently introduced by Fortelius and Solounias ([2000] Am Mus Novitat 3301:1-36). Mesowear is based on facet development on the occlusal surfaces of the teeth. Restricting mesowear investigation to maxillary cheek teeth would allow mesowear investigation only in assemblages of large numbers of individuals and therefore wou...

Although it has been suggested that an imbalance in buccolingual pressure may play a role in dental compensation of the molars and asymmetry in the mandibular dental arch in subjects with facial asymmetry, it is still unclear whether buccolingual pressure is associated with this phenomenon. Thus, the purpose of this study was to test the null hypothesis that there are no differences in cheek an...