Skin grafting is the easiest and the most reliable way to obtain proper wound coverage. However, the two major concerns of skin grafting are the poor color match in the recipient sites and donor site morbidity including pain, discomfort, and hypertrophic scarring. Major pigment mismatches are common in split-thickness grafts particularly in darker skinned patients including Asians (Fig. 1). Sev...

PURPOSE We describe our experience with the Permacol graft in anophthalmic socket reconstruction, and compare it to the autologous buccal mucosal graft, emphasizing the postoperative vascularization and contraction of each graft. METHODS This was a retrospective comparative study. We measured the time necessary for the graft surface to be completely vascularized, as well as the fornix depth o...

Historically, the approach to body contouring has largely involved invasive procedures, such as liposuction. Recently, several new devices for noninvasive fat removal have received clearance by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of focal adiposity. Modalities are aimed primarily at targeting the physical properties of fat that differentiate it from the overlying epidermis and de...

BACKGROUND Little attention has been focused on the effect of fat graft structure on in vivo performance. Having hypothesized that a stable initial graft structure was important to fat graft take-similar to the importance of shear minimization in the take of skin grafts-we have previously shown that purified adipocytes suspended in a resorbable protein matrix (GFR Matrigel; BD Biosciences, San ...

BACKGROUND Autologous fat is an excellent soft tissue filler with cosmetic and reconstructive utility. However, graft longevity is unpredictable. OBJECTIVE This study sought to evaluate the effect on in vivo fat graft performance of contemporary adipocyte tissue engineering techniques that have not previously been applied to mature fat cells due to the difficulty of their purification and the...

Background: Nevus lipomatosus cutaneous superficialis (NLCS) of Hoffmann–Zurhelle is a benign idiopathic hamartoma. There are two types NLCS, multiple and solitary. They found in the abdomen, lower back, buttocks, hips, upper posterior thighs, pelvis. The diagnosis can be evaluated with typical histopathological mature fat cells dermis, 10%–50% dermis.
 Case Report: We reported case NLCS c...