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The alleviation of back pain in 24 of 25 patients who previously had chronic, persistent pain is reported following wide abdominal rectus plication (WARP) abdominoplasty. Radiographic evidence of increases in intervertebral space as well as…

Back pain is classified most easily into three types (1) muscle spasm, (2) herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP), and (3) facet syndrome and/or nerve compression. It is possible the wide abdominal rectus plication procedure will be beneficial to…

The cessation of cervical nerve root pain following modified SMAS rhytidectomy is reported. CAT scans and radiographs demonstrating substantial changes in the intervertebral relationships are documented. No previous report exists demonstrat…

Based on prior experience with implant exposure, an aggressive regimen to eradicate periprosthetic infections has proven successful in delayed gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial infections and in atypical microbacterial infections. T…

In search of a better, more natural appearing mentoplasty prosthesis, a new material, Silastic X7-2524 carvable soft elastomer, has been combined with a new design in a chin implant. In 50 patients over the last 2 years, a submental, subper…

Two-stage correction of tuberous breasts is illustrated and probably indicated to attain a more aesthetically pleasing result in this unusual deformity. Routine augmentation mammaplasty corrects the base defects of vertical and horizontal c…

The presence of atypical mycobacteria has been reported in increasing numbers following augmentation mammaplasty in the United States. Prior to this work, there was no effective method for obtaining a satisfactory result with a retained pro…