Background: Electrical injury is daily compromise of our life and upper and lower extremities   are common sites of injury .   Case Presentation: A 23 years old man who had suffered high voltage electrical injury referred   to our center. He had severe left upper extremity burn and suffered from head and thoracic   injuries due to falling down from high altitude.   Treatment: Fasciotomy of th...

Blowflies are an important parasite of the sheep industry in countries like Australia. For the purposes of prevention, control and elimination, it is of interest to investigate both temporal and spatial variations of the blowflies population using mathematical models. Based on the experimental data of Nicholson [14, 15], Gurney et al . [5] established a dynamical model, the Nicholson blowflies ...

Prabir K. Patra, Kevin R. Gurney, A. Scott Denning, Shamil Maksyutov, Takakiyo Nakazawa, David Baker, Philippe Bousquet, Lori Bruhwiler, Yu-Han Chen, Philippe Ciais, Songmiao Fan, Inez Fung, Manuel Gloor, Martin Heimann, Kaz Higuchi, Jasmin John, Rachel M. Law, Takashi Maki, Bernard C. Pak, Philippe Peylin, Michael Prather, Peter J. Rayner, Jorge Sarmiento, Shoichi Taguchi, Taro Takahashi, and ...

Introduction: The inferiorly and laterally based platysma myocutaneous flap contains hair in some ethnics; therefore, it is required to change the myocutaneous flap to myofascial flap to prevent the hair growth after its transfer to the oral cavity.   Materials and Methods: Five male mongrel dogs were selected for this study. De-epithelialized laterally based platysma fl...

Background: The standard methods for reconstruction of soft tissue defects in the leg include gastrocnemius flap for proximal third defects, soleus flap for middle third and free flap in the distal third. However, there are problems with the use of free flap, like increased operative time, damage of major vessels and the need for experienced microsurgeon. Mathods: This prospective study was und...

the distal third of the tibia, ankle and heel area is difficult to reconstruct. for small to medium size defects, local flaps are often an easier alternative than free flap. in lower limb surgery, the sural flap is based on this principle and this flap is becoming increasingly popular. the distally based superficial sural artery flap, first described as a distally based neuro skin flap by masqu...

Closure of donor site of the flap has special problems. Reduction of this site will decrease the morbidity of operation. In this study, we present our experience in donor site size reduction. METHODS Between 2006 and 2008, 15 patients with skin and soft tissue defects underwent operation. In all patients, coverage of defect was performed with various flaps. Substratum horizontal mat-tress sut...