We describe the successful treatment of pulmonary aspergilloma by limited thoracoplasty used simultaneously with single-stage cavernostomy and a muscle transposition flap. An 80-year-old man with dyspnea on effort and hemoptysis consulted our hospital. Chest computed tomography revealed a thick wall cavity containing a fungus ball surrounded by a crescent of air and diseased lung parenchyma, in...

BACKGROUND Extended Soft tissue defect of leg including middle and distal parts always has been a challenge for many plastic surgeons and also a frustrated problem for patients and families. To introduce the use of the soleus muscle and reverse sural flaps as synchronous surgical treatment alternative of the leg bone exposure with large soft tissue defect, this study was conducted. METHODS T...

purpose: to report the outcomes of surgical and non-surgical treatment for sixth nerve palsy and paresis in our center. methods: hospital records of 33 patients (35 eyes) with sixth nerve dysfunction who were referred to labbafinejad medical center from september 1996 to september 2006 and underwent surgical procedures or botulinum toxin injection were reviewed. results: patients were divided i...

We report the effects of unilateral recession-resection surgery of the horizontal recti muscles with inferior displacement and augmented anterior transposition of the inferior oblique muscle with a posterior intermuscular suture in a patient with large exotropia and considerable hypertropia.

smoking has been shown to be a complicating factor in normal wound healing. both nicotine and carbon monoxide adversely affect multiple stages of the healing process. from 1991 to 1999,407 muscle flap procedures were performed on 374 patients in a single surgical unit. a retrospective review of 261 patients was completed. patients were divided into three groups: group a, no smoking history grou...

INTRODUCTION Patients with missing superior oblique (SO) tendons present with overelevation/underdepression in adduction. Unilateral cases often exhibit abnormal head postures, whereas in bilateral cases, there may be a marked V-pattern with upgaze exotropia. These patients may have craniosynostosis. METHODS Nine children with unilateral (n = 2) or bilateral (n = 7) absent SO tendons underwen...

Aims. To report the results of lateral rectus muscle recession, medial rectus muscle resection, and superior oblique muscle transposition in the restoration and maintenance of ocular alignment in primary position for patients with total third-nerve palsy. Methods. The medical records of patients who underwent surgery between March 2007 and September 2011 for total third-nerve palsy were reviewe...

There have been reports of ulnar nerve compression due to anatomic variations at Guyon’s canal. Knowledge certain canal may help hand surgeons identify possible unconventional sites the nerve. We present a case report patient with an aberrant palmaris brevis muscle belly that was found cross over proximal aspect tunnel neurovascular bundle potentially causing symptoms. Surgical interventions re...

tum, especially in the cases of gracilis muscle transfer. Goldsmith reported eight cases of a pedicled gastric pyloric valve transposition to provide a new sphincter ani in a human being [3]. Twenty-five percent of the patients had serious complications of pelvic sepsis and transplant necrosis. Manometric studies were done preoperatively on patients with anal sphincter damage and after pyloric ...