BACKGROUND Rectovaginal fistula is defined as a result of an abnormal connection between the rectum and vagina. It is often a result of inflammatory bowel disease, iatrogenic illness, malignancy or trauma. Rectovaginal fistula treatment is dependent on the classification of the fistula (simple or complex). There are few reports on transposition of gracilis muscle as a feasible option for treatm...

Background and objective: Conventionally, pulmonary resection with thoracoplasty is used to treat ®brocavernous complication of pulmonary tuberculosis. This operation is usually bloody, time-consuming with complicated postoperative course. To prevent massive blood loss and preserved pulmonary function, a more simpli®ed operative procedure, cavernostomy combined intrathoracic muscle ̄ap transpos...

Mammalian skeletal muscle has a significant capacity for regeneration following injury; however, loss of approximately 20% or more of the mass of an individual muscle (or muscle group) is termed volumetric muscle loss (VML). Consequences of VML include extensive scar tissue deposition, loss of function, and significant morbidity. Almost all therapeutic approaches have involved surgery (e.g., au...

Five dogs with pressure ulcers over the greater trochanter were treated by debridement and transposition of the cranial part of the sartorius or the rectus femoris muscle. Both muscles had vascular anatomy that allowed transposition based on a major vascular pedicle. All wounds healed promptly by primary intention and no ulcer recurred. The cranial sartorius flap technique was easier to perform...

purpose: to report a patient with exotropia due to medial rectus muscle entrapment as a complication of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (edcr). case report: a 34-year-old female was referred with left exotropia 18 days after edcr for treatment of primary nasolacrimal duct obstruction. she had a large angle left exotropia in primary position as well as complete limitation of adduction and parti...

Objective: We evaluated the clinical efficacy of a one-stage modified semi-posterior sagittal anorectoplasty (modified Peña procedure) for radical treatment of female imperforate anus with a rectovesibula fistula. Methods: A total of 89 female neonates who had imperforate anus with a rectovesibula fistula and underwent treatment in our hospital between January 2003 and December 2013 were enroll...

We have created an alternative method for facial reanimation. This new surgical procedure involves masseter muscle transposition combined with tensor fascia lata, and the zygomatic arch is used as a trochlea to achieve reconstruction of inferior facial paralysis. This method was used on five patients with facial palsy after excision of a malignant parotid tumour. Wide skin defect exposing the m...