Complications in orthognathic surgery may stem from occurrences at anyone of many time points during the course of the patient’s treatment: preoperative judgment and planning, perioperative orthodontic care, or intraoperatively. This article specifically addresses those complications that arise as a result of intraoperative technique. Such complications may broadly be characterized as airway, v...

HYPOTHESIS Adherence to National Institutes of Health consensus statement recommendations for early-stage breast cancer will vary by surgeon characteristics. DESIGN Secondary data analysis using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results national tumor registry linked with Medicare claims data. Logistic regression was used to analyze data on a cohort of 1045 surgeons who operated on 9449...

OBJECTIVES Clinical guidelines recommend that when breast-conserving surgery is provided as primary therapy for early-stage breast cancer, radiation therapy should follow. We do not know whether racial/ethnic disparities in this therapy exist and how disparities may have changed over time. DESIGN AND PATIENTS We studied 89,110 women who were diagnosed with incident early-stage (American Joint...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to compare the prevalence of shoulder-arm morbidity, patient satisfaction with surgery and the quality of life of women submitted to breast-conserving therapy or modified radical mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction . METHODS This study was a cross-sectional study of women who underwent breast-conserving therapy (n = 44) or modified radical mastect...

BACKGROUND Graph theory provides a powerful and comprehensive formalism of global and local topological network properties of complex structural or functional brain connectivity. Software packages such as the Brain-Connectivity-Toolbox have contributed to graph theory's increasing popularity for characterization of brain networks. However, comparably comprehensive packages are command-line base...

Breast-conserving therapy (BCT) has become the standard of care for vast majority patients with early breast cancer [1]. A regular approach are two independent incisions tumor and sentinel lymph node (SLN). Despite preserving oncological safety, surgery progressively less radical in favor improved cosmetic outcome minimal functional deficiency over time [2]. Oncoplastic conserving (OPS) been wi...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether area-level Medicare physician fees for mastectomy and breast conserving surgery were associated with treatment received by Medicare beneficiaries with localized breast cancer and to compare these results with an earlier analysis conducted using small areas (three-digit zip codes) as the unit of observation. DATA SOURCE Medicare claims and physician survey data f...

BACKGROUND Although autologous fat grafting is widely accepted for breast reconstruction, its indications remain limited to minor contour deformities after reconstruction and small deformities after breast-conserving surgery. The authors describe a case series of total or nearly total breast reconstructions treated with the perioperative use of a vacuum-based external tissue expander (i.e., the...