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No surgeon likes to face complications. It takes effort to treat them personally and more effort to note, count, analyze, and demonstrate them. The author carefully followed 250 personal consecutive patients (476 breasts) who underwent vert…

Vertical mammaplasty, a technique that avoids submammary scars, has proved to be a reliable method of breast reduction because it is adaptable to most cases and produces beautiful and durable results. What about secondary cases? In the last…

Since 1989, I have used vertical mammaplasty without a submammary scar for all breast reductions. This technique uses adjustable markings, an upper pedicle for the areola, and a central breast reduction with limited skin undermining. The sh…

Esthetic surgery is now widely accepted by the public and produces results that look more natural than in its early years. Rhinoplasties tend to be undetectable, remodeling of the face includes bone work when useful and treats the soft tiss…

Since 1958, 900 children with cleft lip and palate were operated on at the University Hospital Brugmann in Brussels. Until 1981, the children were operated at 6 months for the lip and at 18 months for the palate with two flap palatoplasties…

One hundred and fifty latissimus dorsi flaps were used in 145 patients out of a series of 483 breast reconstructions performed from 1977 to 1988. There were few immediate complications and a durable, good cosmetic result was obtained in two…

The abdominal wall function of 57 patients who have undergone TRAM flap breast reconstructions using the whole rectus muscle, on one side (33 patients) or both (24 patients), was evaluated 6 months to 2 years after surgery. The defect was r…

A better understanding of the vascular anatomy of the breast has drastically reduced the risk of postoperative necrosis in breast reduction. Scars however remain a major concern, and techniques to reduce these have often been considered to …

The authors report three cases of pterygium colli. Two of them presented as part of Turner's syndrome and were treated following a personal technique. The third, which was probably due to jugular lymphatic obstruction, was treated according…

It has been the experience of many surgeons that results following breast reconstruction change with time. To evaluate long-term results, the 350 breast reconstructions performed in the authors' department from January 1977 to April 1986 we…

In ten years, breast reconstruction has become a routine procedure. It is now well established that it does not influence breast cancer. Techniques have been refined, and even use the excess of skin and fat of the lower abdomen to reconstru…

The technique of facial reconstruction used by the plastic team at the Cancer Center of the University of Brussels are presented. Free grafts are seldom performed because they often lead to disfigurement. An appropriate evaluation of the ma…

In 80 cases, breast reconstruction was performed as a secondary procedure at least one year after mastectomy for cancer. The prerequisite was absence of local recurrence and distant metastasis, good general condition and careful information…

Prophylactic subcutaneous mastectomy is performed only in high risk patients. In other cases, the breast is adapted if needed by conventional techniques. These are slightly modified to obtain a less conical shape of the breast and preserve …

Reconstruction of the nipple areolar complex should be done as a second stage procedure about three months after volume replacement. Symmetry in position, size, and color is of utmost importance for the overall aspect of a breast reconstruc…

The candidate to cosmetic surgery is not, contrary to a too common idea, a frivolous creature trying to become more beautiful. He is generally a person with a physical disgrace that induces a frustrating sense of inferiority. The role of th…

An island skin flap sliding on its own subcutaneous tissue is described to replace large cheek wound defects after tumor resection in elderly patients. The simplicity of the method and the uniformly good results in 25 cases have led the aut…