Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to T Vitagliano.
The anatomical characteristics of the orbital-eyelid region are responsible for many traumas of different kinds, like road, domestic and sports accidents, especially in the last years. Therefore different kinds of lesion of the soft and hard tissues in the orbital region and the diagnoses and the therapeutics according to plastic and maxillo-facial surgery are examined.
The senior author has been using micrografts for correction of male pattern baldness since 1978. He has also been using these small grafts for correction of temporal hairline and loss of sideburn due to rhytidectomies, burns, avulsions, irradiation, and alopecia triangularis congenitas circumscripta [1,2]. Technique and results are presented.
The authors present an unusual case of nasal tip deformity of the nose not mentioned in the literature. The nose tip presented hypertrophy of all the components of the crura and the cranial part of the lateral crus was rotated externally and widened. An extra dome was present bilaterally between the medial crus and the medial part of the lateral crus. This increased the columella show and made it deformed like a break in the middle of the columella. An open-approach rhinoplasty was performed and the alar cartilages were reshaped.