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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...
Background: Significant or what has been called massive weight loss is any amount over 75lbs. Such amounts of weight loss are known to result in the creation of loose skin due to expansion which almost never contracts back to its original amount and tightness. These post weight loss skin effects vary across the body with Read More…
Background: The back of the head is unique in many ways but is the only skull surface that can have bone and scalp aesthetic deformities. The back of the head can have bony protrusions such as occipital knobs and buns as well as a wide variety of bony flattening and asymmetry shapes. Excess scalp can Read More…
Background: At the interface of the bottom end of the skull on the back of the head (inferior edge of occipital bone) is the upper neck. This is where the thick neck muscles and fascia attach to the bone. Because of this location the skull bone and neck soft tissues are thickest at this interface. Read More…
Background: While there are a variety of pathologic conditions that can affect the scalp none is more unusual that cutis verticis gyrata. (C VG) While most people have seen someone so affected few realize that it is an actual pathologic problem. Appearing as wrinkles on the head is why is called gyrata being similar to Read More…
Background: The scalp is essentially soft tissues stretch over a ‘beachball’. (skull) Because of its stretched out shape it is typically fairly tight. While everyone has some scalp laxity it is not particularly flexible or can be pushed around much. There are certain scalp circumstances, however, where greater scalp looseness occurs. One such circumstance is Read More…
Background: The thick hair bearing scalp can develop a variety of benign soft tissue masses/tumors. Lipomas, dermoid cysts and pilomatrixomas are the most common and develop from natural structures that exists in the scalp. (fat, sweat/oil glands and hair follicles) Most such masses are readily identifiable when they are seen by exposing and removing them Read More…
Background: Parry-Romberg syndrome is a rare but well known type of facial atrophy. It presents well after birth in children, teens or young adults with the onset of progressive atrophy of facial tissues. While it theoretically can affect any part of the face, I have seen a disproportion of cases that involve the upper third Read More…
Background: The scalp is not prone to a lot of different congenital conditions. But one congenital abnormality that does occur is that of cutis aplasia. This is a condition where there is an absence of skin and deeper structures underneath it including bone in some cases. While it can occur anywhere on the body, it Read More…
Background: Most scalp reconstructions are done for the need to recreate a full-thickness scalp layer. Replacing a full-thickness scalp wound requires all layers of the scalp and must be done by either tissue expansion or rotation flaps of adjacent scalp or the microvascular transfer of distant tissue. Most partial thickness scalp defects are missing some Read More…
Background: The scalp is a remarkably thick and well vascularized tissue as it covers the entire skull surface. Its thickness, however, varies at different areas of the skull. It is the thickest on the back of the head where it blends into the posterior neck tissues. The base of the occipital skull also ends up 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...