Topical Phenytoin: Role in Diabetic Ulcer Care 1 Rituraj Sunil Aggarwal Sanjay Chatterjee Resident, Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of General Surgery NIMS Medical College & Hospital, Jaipur, India *Corresponding author: Rituraj ABSTRACT Foot complications are a major cause of hospitalization in patients with diabetes mellitus. The optimal topical therapy for diabetic foot ulcers rem...

OBJECTIVE The use of negative-pressure-wound-therapy (NPWT) is associated with improved outcomes in smaller burns. We report our experience using extra-large (XL) NPWT dressings to treat ≥15% total body surface area (TBSA) burned and describe our technique and early outcomes. We also provide NPWT exudate volume for predictive fluid resuscitation in these critically ill patients. METHODS We re...

In anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, slow graft maturation may result in graft failure or elongation during the postoperative rehabilitation period. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a potent mediator of angiogenesis. The findings of recent studies suggest that VEGF application is a potential strategy to accelerate angiogenesis in the graft after ACL reconstruction. Ho...

Strictures involving the penile urethra generally require tissue transfer techniques. Ventral graft placement usually is avoided in the penile urethra because of the relative paucity of viable corpus spongiosal tissue necessary for vascularization and support. Instead, grafts are commonly placed dorsally using either an onlay or inlay technique. However, the successful use of ventrally placed g...

We consider a number of notice and take-down regimes for Internet content. These differ in the incentives for removal, the legal framework for compelling action, and the speed at which material is removed. By measuring how quickly various types of content are removed, we determine that the requester’s incentives outweigh all other factors, from the penalties available, to the methods used to ob...

Materials and method: One hundred and twenty patients who had undergone type 1 tympanoplasty using temporal fascia and tragal cartilage were retrospectively reviewed. Eighty seven patients underwent tympanoplasty using temporal fascia graft while in 33 patients, tragal cartilage with perichondrium was employed. Graft take up was analyzed at 6 weeks post-operatively, in both the groups. Pre-oper...

Treatment of post burn contractures of the hand, implies in most of cases the use of a full thickness skin graft, especially when the contracture doesn’t involve deeper structures but only the skin and the subcutaneous tissues. But in spite of being the “golden standard” in the treatment of these cases, use of a full thickness skin graft carries with it certain inconveniences such as those rela...

Background: SSG is a versatile technique used for the reconstruction of wounds. The conventional techniques like traditional bolster dressing (TBD) to secure graft have been in use since long time management these NPWT an effective advanced therapy which increase take by providing negative pressure seal space and provide persistent uniform pressure. Methods: 60 patients were enrolled study. In ...