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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
The natural ear is a complex structure consisting of various convexities and concavities. The convexities are the outer helical rim and the Y-shaped superior and inferior crus and antoihelix. The concavities are the large inner most concha around the external auditory canal and the triangular and scaphoid fossas. While the functional significance of these combined Read More…
Background: Reconstruction of the ear from traumatic injuries, cancer resections and congenital deformities has a long history of numerous techniques available to do so. But the hardest part of the ear to successfully create or rebuild is its smallest part, the lobule. This suspended piece of skin and fat lacks any cartilage support and its Read More…
Background: Microtia is a well known congenital ear deformity that has established techniques for its reconstruction. The completely autologous method using rib cartilage grafts, typically done around age 6, is a proven technique that offers complication free long term results. The aesthetic success of the procedure is based on how well carved and shaped the Read More…
Background: The development of the external ear is one of the most complex embryological features in the head and neck region. Its origin is from six mesenchymal proliferations of the 1st and 2nd pharyngeal arches, also known as the auricular hillocks, which initially appear at six weeks in utero and is fully formed by the Read More…
Background: Congenital absence of part or most of the ear is known as microtia. The reconstruction of microtia has a well established history which consists of removal of the remaining deformed ear cartilage and replacement with a hand carved rib graft framework. Soft tissue coverage of the ear framework typically comes from the elevation of Read More…
Background: The ear due to its angulated position from the side of the head is exposed to multiple types of injuries. Most of the these ear injuries are either lacerations (common) or avulsive (far less common) in nature. In either case there are ample normal and supple tissues on or around the ear to perform Read More…
Ear reconstruction of congenital or traumatic injuries often involves the need for multiple tissue layers to rebuild the ear. A cartilage framework and a vascularized layer on top of the cartilage onto which a skin graft is placed on its outer surface is essential in many major full thickness ear absences or losses. In creating Read More…
Reconstruction of congenital ear defects, of which microtia is the most common, requires a framework to recreate the basic structure of the ear. Such framework recreations can be done either fabricating it from rib cartilage or an off-the shelf prefabricated implant. (porous polyethylene or Medpor) Each ear framework approach as its own advantages and disadvantages Read More…
Background: The ear has a complex shape which is exposed to a variety of congenital deformities. The most severe congenital ear deformity is that of microtia in which the ear is either severely deformed or even largely missing. In most cases remnants of the ear are present but it is significantly misshapen and shrunken in Read More…
Background: Cryptotia is a well known congenital ear deformity whose appearance is marked by loss (disasppearance) of the upper part of the ear. The upper pole of the ear is buried under the temporal skin to varying degrees. While the ear can be pulled out from underneath the skin it will return to its buried Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...