BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To explore the methods of clinical classification in chronic radiation-induced ulcers in the chest wall (CRUCWs). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 64 patients with CRUCWs were treated. We divided the cases into 3 types (mild, moderate, or severe) according to their clinical manifestations. Conservative treatments, axial-pattern myocutaneous or local flaps, or filleted f...

BACKGROUND: Exercise beliefs abound regarding variations in strength training techniques on muscle activation levels yet little research has validated these ideas. The purpose of the study is to determine muscle activation level, expressed as a percent of a normalization contraction, of the latissimus dorsi, biceps brachii and middle trapezius/rhomboids muscle groups during a series of differen...

Background Brachial plexus birth palsy remains a frequent condition and one of its treatments is to transfer the Latissimus Dorsi tendon infraspinatus muscle. The aim this study was analyse, for first time, three-dimensional kinematic effects operation on upper limb joints during five Mallet tasks their correlation with clinical parameters. Methods Kinematic analysis performed using an electrom...

SUMMARY Corrective surgery following breast-conserving surgery is generally challenging due to severe fibrosis induced by postoperative radiotherapy. Although use of the latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap offers a safe and reliable option, exposure of the skin paddle to the skin surface is often inevitable to achieve correction of nipple-areola complex malposition, leaving conspicuous, patchwor...

Introduction A number of accessory muscle slip cases in the axilla arising from latissimus dorsi, pectoralis major, ribs and costal cartilages have been reported by different authors [1]. These accessory muscle slips in the axilla have been described under variety of names (e.g., chondro-epitrochlearis, dorsoepitrochlearis, etc). These variant bundles are commonly referred to as “axillary arch”...

Introduction Axillary arch is an additional muscle bundle of various dimensions extending from latissimus dorsi in the posterior fold of the axilla, to the pectoralis major in the anterior fold, to the short head of the biceps brachii or to the coracoid process [1, 2]. Ramsay, in 1795, described the axillary arch for the first time. He gave the description of a muscle bundle connecting pectoral...

Analyses of embryonic aneurogenic muscles indicate that several processes associated with early myogenesis in vivo proceed in the absence of peripheral nerves. However, aneurogenic muscles demonstrate impaired growth and limited survival. To investigate whether neurally mediated activity is responsible for these phenomena, aneurogenic muscles of the chick embryo were directly stimulated in vivo...

The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical results of two different techniques of latissimus dorsi transfer used in 28 patients, either a modified single incision mini-invasive Herzberg transfer (HT) or a combined latissimus dorsi and teres major transfer according to L'Episcopo (LE). Twenty-eight patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Minimum follow-up was 24 months. Sixteen pat...

Subjects and methods The present pilot study is a case report on a single proband. Surface EMG (Noraxon) was recorded on one healthy subject during 3 resistive exercises using TheraBand (blue color). EMG activity during the agistic-excentric-exercises was analyzed on m. obliquus abdominis int., m. rectus abdominis, m. latissimus dorsi, m.erector spinae TH-L on the right and left side. The EMG a...