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T Funcik

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PubMed1995

The effect of intradermal corticosteroids on skin flap edema.

OBJECTIVE: To validate a model for skin flap edema in the piglet and determine whether intraoperative and postoperative intradermal corticosteroids reduce the edema created. DESIGN: Prospective, randomized, matched-control animal model. SETTING: Animal laboratory. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-five weight-matched purebred Yorkshire piglets. INTERVENTION: Intraoperative and postoperative injections of intradermal triamcinolone. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURED: Flap edema. RESULTS: A reproducible skin flap edema model was validated in the piglet. Intraoperative intradermal corticosteroids decreased flap edema but postoperative corticosteroids did not. CONCLUSION: Clinical improvement in skin flap and supratip fullness may result from mechanisms other than edema.

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PubMed1995

Reduced mastoidectomy complications with an open meatoplasty stent.

Open-tube stents were compared with standard petroleum gauze packs in meatoplasties after canal-wall-down mastoid surgery to determine whether any difference existed in postoperative complications. Tube stents were associated with much lower incidences of postoperative meatoplasty stenosis and postauricular wound complications in this series.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Factors influencing the results of open reduction and internal fixation of tibial plateau fractures.

Forty-three displaced tibial plateau fractures were treated with open reduction and internal fixation. The fractures were classified into four groups, and the clinical results were evaluated using a standard 100-point knee rating system. The average follow-up period after surgery was 2.7 years. Overall there were 35 excellent, five good, three fair, and no poor results. In five of eight knees with a less than excellent score, the results were due to the technique of fracture fixation or the absence of a bone graft. There were ten postoperative complications, but only one ultimately affected the clinical result. Fourteen patients required removal of implants. Roentgenographic analysis showed that six knees had mild degenerative changes, two had moderate, and two had severe degenerative changes. There was no statistically significant association between the fracture type and a less than excellent result. The absence of bone grafting, however, was associated with a less than excellent result. Bicondylar fractures had a mean range of motion of 110 degrees, 18 degrees less than that of all other types of fracture combined.

Adolescent↗