Modified tendon stripper for staged tendon grafting.
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Biomedical subjects
N Karaçal
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Nonsurgical delay of cutaneous flaps using the flashlamp pumped pulsed dye laser.
The surgical delay procedure is an effective method for improving skin flap survival. However, it has many disadvantages, such as bleeding, infection, and pain. It also requires an additional operation and a long time for wound management. Nonsurgical delay has a great importance, but pharmacological efforts for delay phenomena have never found clinical application. In this study, the authors attempted to reproduce the delay phenomena via the flashlamp pumped dye laser. Forty Sprague-Dawley rats were studied in four groups of 10 rats each. The experimental and control flaps were on the same rat. Flaps were planned on the ventral skin of the rats, and were symmetrical, three sided, based caudally, and were 2 cm in width, extended to the measured midpoint between the xiphoid and the sternal notch. The laser was applied to the different areas of the experimental flaps 15 days before flap elevation. A week later flap survival was determined by overlaying millimeter-grid acetate paper. Full-surface and perimeter "lased" experimental flaps showed a marked increase in surviving areas when compared with the control flaps. This kind of flap delay has a great potential in clinic application.
Animals↗
Cleft lip and dental eruption.
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Child, Preschool↗
New tumor formation on split-thickness skin grafted areas in xeroderma pigmentosum.
Xeroderma pigmentosum is a relatively rare systemic disease transmitted through an incomplete sex-linked recessive gene. It is characterized by malignant skin degeneration. One of the most effective treatment choices for the malignant changes is full-face resurfacing with skin grafts. Grafts harvested from areas that have some freckles may show malignant degeneration by ultraviolet exposure. The authors present a patient whose face was resurfaced with a split-thickness skin graft and was admitted due to new tumor formation on her resurfaced face.
Adolescent↗