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    Anchored Rotation Flap for Infraorbital Cheek Reconstruction
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    *University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Kord Honda, MD, University of Washington, Box 356524, Seattle, WA 98195-6524, or e-mail: [email protected]. This paper was funded by a National Institutes of Health training grant.
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    Cheek
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    Purpose: A wart is caused by epidermal infection with the human papilloma virus. Although wart naturally disappears in some cases, it require treatment because of pain, aesthetic problem, and the possibility of malignant change. Conventional non-surgical treatment cannot be a fundamental solution for the pain and has such disadvantages as frequent recurrence and difficulties in achieving a satisfactory outcome. A surgical procedure was performed on patients with wart and the procedure had a good outcome. Methods: We investigated the gender, age, lesion site, mean treatment duration, and presence or absence of recurrence in 21 patients with a wart within the period of January 2007 to July 2011. For local lesions, primary closure, including subcuticular suture after the excision, was performed. If the defect size was too big to do primary closure, we performed rotation flap. For wide multiple lesions, a split thickness skin graft was performed. Results: Among the 21 patients, 12 patients were male and 9 patients were female, and their mean age was 42 years (SD=17.38, range: 11~75 years). The lesion site was the foot in 10 patients, the hand in 8 patients, the face in 2 patients, and the scalp in 1 patient. The mean treatment duration was 13.5 days (SD=4.36, range: 6~15 days) for the primary closure or rotation flap, and 18.5 days (SD=2.12, range: 17~20 days) for the skin graft. 20 patients were cured without recurrence. No recurrence was observed in the patients who underwent primary closure or rotation flap. One of the two patients who underwent a skin graft of their wart that had covered their entire palm had local recurrence in part of her finger tips. Conclusion: We performed surgical procedure on recalcitrant wart. As a results, we can treat it with short treatment duration, low recurrence rate and less scarring and get high patient satisfaction.
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    Pilonidal sinus is a common disorder of the sacrococcygeal region and several surgical treatments have been described. However, rates of recurrences and complications vary, so there is no consensus on one specific approach. In this prospective study from 1 August 2000 to 1 August 2003, 60 patients with pilonidal sinus were treated by our new surgical technique. All patients were operated on by the first author or under his supervision. A vertical elliptical excision was made, and the defect repaired by a fasciocutaneous rotation flap based on the inferior pedicle under general anaesthesia. All patients were discharged from hospital on the first postoperative day. By the 12th day, the wound had healed completely. There were no recurrences during one years' follow-up. Postoperative pain was negligible and the scar was cosmetically acceptable. The inferiorly-based rotation flap is an ideal technique for treatment of pilonidal sinus, cures the disease, has low recurrence rates, little postoperative pain, and few complications. Stay in hospital was short and patients returned to their regular activities in a short time.
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    We reviewed a consecutive series of 16 patients above 60 years of age (mean age 71 years) who underwent reconstruction with pedicled flaps in the lower extremity. The soft tissue defects ranged from 9 to 50 cm and were caused in 11 patients (70%) by surgical complications from previous surgeries. Of these, 5 patients underwent a total joint replacement of the knee (4 cases) and of the ankle (1 case). Surgery consisted of 19 muscular flaps, and 3 fasciocutaneous flaps. Six patients were treated with a combination of 2 flaps. The overall surgical complication rate after reconstruction was 44%. There was no perioperative mortality and there were no medical complications. One patient required an above-the-knee amputation because of uncontrollable postoperative bleeding. A thrombectomy was performed in another patient to treat a postoperative popliteal artery occlusion with critical ischemia of the leg. Other complications included recurrent total joint replacement infections (2 cases), marginal flap necrosis (4 cases), and skin necrosis at the donor site (1 case). The mean hospitalization stay was 46 days. All patients but 1 completely healed, although secondary surgery was performed in 7 patients. The occurrence of complications was not correlated with the preoperative morbidity or an age above 75 years. The local complication rate was higher than reported for free flap in the same age category, but the lack of perioperative mortality and medical complications make it a low-risk option for reconstruction of small- to middle-sized defects in the elderly.
    Abstract Some 114 patients (median age 52 years) underwent laparoscopic hernia repair as a day-case procedure. Twenty-one patients had bilateral and 11 recurrent hernias. Some 113 patients underwent transabdominal preperitoneal mesh repair but one required conversion to open operation. Mean operating time was 24 min for unilateral and 38 min for bilateral repair. In an operating session of 3·5 h, up to five patients (mean 4·4) underwent surgery and as many as seven hernias were repaired. More than 10 per cent of patients were found to have a previously undiagnosed hernia on the opposite side. A total of 111 patients were discharged home on the day of surgery. Major complications included one omental bleed and one small bowel obstruction. Seroma was the commonest minor complication and occurred in 7 per cent of patients. More than 35 per cent of patients needed no postoperative analgesia. To date there has been one recurrence (follow-up range 2–18 months).
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    Objective To investigate the causes, the indications and operative procedures of reoperation for postoperative recurrence of hyperthyroidism. Method Clinical data of 34 cases of postoperative recurrence of hyperthyroidism received reoperation were analyzed retrospectively .Results The reoperative procedures including bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy in 29 cases, unilateral thyroidectomy in 5. All the 34 patients were cured by reoperation.The incidence of postoperative complication was 5.9%,which was not significantly different compared with primary operation treatment during the same time in our hospital.All the 34 case were followed up for 1~10 years,the results showed that all patients were alive well without recurrence or hypothyroidism .Conclusions Extension of the resected thyoid is not enough in the primary surgery is the main cause of postoperative recurrence of hyperthyroidism.Reoperation is the choise of therapy in selective patients with postoperative hyperthyroidsm recurrence .Careful intraoperative dissection can help to avoid injuries of recurrent nerve and parathyroid,and to prevent massive bleeding.
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    Incisional hernias develop in up to 11% of surgical abdominal wounds with a possible recurrence following repair of 44%. We describe our experience with a combined fascial and prosthetic mesh repair. Thirty-five patients (16M:19F) have been treated. The original operation was bowel related in 19 cases, gynaecological in 8, hepatopancreaticobiliary in 3 patients, aortic aneurysm repair in 2 and involved a thoraco-laparotomy in 3. The incisions were midline in 26 cases, transverse in 6, paramedian in 2 and rooftop in one patient. The hernias were considered subjectively to be large in 15, medium in 14 and small in 6 of the patients. A proforma was completed for each patient noting intra-operative and post-operative complications, post-operative hospital stay and analgesic requirements. Post-operative complications included seroma formation in 6 patients, deep vein thrombosis in one and a non-fatal pulmonary embolism in another. One patient developed a wound haematoma and one had a superficial wound infection. Post-operative in-hospital stay ranged from 1 to 27 days with a mean of 6.2 days. Of the 35 patients 33 were available for follow-up. Follow-up was for a median of 20.3 months (range 6.0 to 54.1 months). Two of these (6%) patients reported a persistent lump and one (3%) reported persistent pain but none of the remaining 33 was found to have a recurrence. We advocate this technique because it is applicable to all hernias, most of the mesh is behind the rectus sheath and has 2 points of fixation, it is relatively pain-free allowing early mobilisation, has a modest complication rate and a low recurrence rate.
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