Latissimus dorsi (LD) myocutaneous flap can be regarded as the choice flap for autologous breast reconstruction following a total mastectomy in a case of large breast cancer with skin graft where microsurgical expertise are not available and patient are not suitable for other different types of flap .It is regarded as a relatively safe procedure, no microsurgical expertise is needed with fever ...

Electron microscopic findings on the nerve of the biventer cervicis muscle of the chick, which was completely transected and immediately after submitted to an adequate microsurgical nerve suture, confirmed our previous statement that proper microsurgical nerve suture may impede the Wallerian degeneration that normally occurs in the distal segment of a completely transected nerve.

Approximately 15% of couples cannot conceive a child after 1 year of regular, unprotected intercourse. Male factor infertility is contributory in another 30% to 40%. Most causes of male infertility are treatable and the goal of many treatments is to restore the ability to conceive naturally. The dramatic recent improvements in the management of male infertility are largely contributable to impr...

reported are a total of 81 microsurgical operations for cranial nerve root decompression comprising of 66 trigeminal, 10 facial, one vestibular, one vagus and three accessory nerve dysfunction syndromes from 1983 to 1990. almost all cases of trigeminal neuralgia (tng) secondary to vascular (59 cases) and minute mass (10 cases) compression, and those with hemifacial spasm (hfs) (nine out of 10 c...

performed in birds have increased substantially over the last decade because of the widespread use of isoflurane anesthesia, the introduction of microsurgical techniques to the avian practice, improvement in microsurgical instrumentation, improvements in bipolar radiosurgical instrumentation and the growing expertise of avian surgeons. Board certified surgeons are becoming attracted to the fiel...

IntroductIon: Vascularized lymph node transfer (VLNT) and lymphovenous bypass (LVB) procedures represent physiologic treatment options for symptomatic lymphedema. Secondary causes related to oncologic surgery and/ or radiation have been successfully treated using these surgical procedures. Primary lymphedema represents a poorly understood lymphedematous condition with equally poor understanding...