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A single-operator technique for DIEP flap raise in high-BMI patients.
High body mass index (BMI) patients undergoing autologous breast reconstruction with the deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap face the increased risk of wound healing complications, fat necrosis, and donor-site morbidity. While p…
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Validating a digital recovery tool for autologous breast reconstruction.
[BACKGROUND] Recent research aims to leverage technology to further understand surgical recovery by using continuous data. Traditional metrics of readmission, flap failure, and patient-reported outcome measures are limited by poor accuracy …
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Quantifying postoperative recovery using wearable activity monitors following abdominal wall surgery: The AbTech trial.
[PURPOSE] This work aimed to investigate the validity of wearable activity monitors (WAMs) as an objective tool to measure the return toward normal functional mobility following abdominal wall surgery. This was achieved by quantifying and c…
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Primary radiotherapy and deep inferior epigastric perforator flap reconstruction for patients with breast cancer (PRADA): a multicentre, prospective, non-randomised, feasibility study.
[BACKGROUND] Radiotherapy before mastectomy and autologous free-flap breast reconstruction can avoid adverse radiation effects on healthy donor tissues and delays to adjuvant radiotherapy. However, evidence for this treatment sequence is sp…
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Is there an ideal outcome scoring system for facial reanimation surgery? A review of current methods and suggestions for future publications.
Facial reanimation is the surgical process of attempting to restore dynamic, spontaneous symmetry to the paralysed face. We undertook to review the most frequently used scoring systems and discuss a universal set of assessments which every …