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Venous thromboembolism after facelift surgery under local anesthesia: results of a multicenter survey.
[BACKGROUND] Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious complication of cosmetic surgery, and studies have suggested that the incidence is not insignificant in facelift surgery. Use of local anesthesia over general anesthesia and shorter ope…
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Barbed sutures in aesthetic plastic surgery: evolution of thought and process.
The evolution of barbed suture technologies and their application in the field of plastic surgery is now in its third decade. Much has been learned along the way. Initial excitement was often followed by disappointment as we learned more ab…
- Cosmetic medicine and surgery: a shift in perspective.
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An overview of cosmetic medicine and surgery: past, present, and future.
The evolution of thought and process in cosmetic medicine and surgery has united specialists from various backgrounds with the goal of providing safe, reproducible techniques to improve the various elements of the aging face from within and…
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Infection risk from the use of continuous local-anesthetic infusion pain pumps in aesthetic and reconstructive abdominal procedures.
Postoperative pain control after abdominal procedures can be an area of significant concern. Continuous local-anesthetic infusion pain pumps have been clearly documented in recent literature to provide effective early postoperative pain con…
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Continuous-infusion local anesthetic pain pump use and seroma formation with abdominal procedures: is there a correlation?
[BACKGROUND] Seroma formation is the most commonly occurring complication in plastic surgery abdominal procedures. Continuous local anesthetic pain pump delivery systems are often used to decrease postoperative pain. An unreported concern w…
- Facelifts. Part II. Preface.
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Reconstructive rhytidectomy?
Muscular dystrophies are commonly considered hereditary progressive degenerative diseases that affect skeletal and cardiac muscles. Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is a rare hereditary disorder of later onset consisting of progressive dy…
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Breast augmentation and abdominoplasty: postoperative management with pain pumps.
Using pain pumps, the author has been successful in reducing postoperative pain after breast augmentation and abdominoplasty. Further, patients ambulate sooner, which reduces the risk of deep vein thrombosis, and more fully expand their lun…
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Subperiosteal transblepharoplasty forehead lift.
Contemporary options for correction of the aging upper one-third of the face include open techniques with a coronal or anterior hairline incision, endoscopic access to the forehead including muscle transection, brow lift through direct fore…
- A technique for valve placement in breast reconstruction using tissue expanders.
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The surgical management of upper eyelid hooding.
A technique is described that aesthetically corrects brow ptosis and upper eyelid hooding in selected patients. This procedure is performed through a standard upper eyelid blepharoplasty incision and addresses the common findings of soft ti…
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Primary breast reconstruction with a subpectoral silicone tissue expander.
A Silastic tissue expander inserted subpectorally at the time of modified radical mastectomy has provided early development of the reconstructive envelope, thereby simplifying matching of the contralateral breast. Significant emotional supp…