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500 Consecutive patients with free TRAM flap breast reconstruction: a single surgeon's experience.

BACKGROUND This study reports on the longitudinal experience and outcomes of one surgeon performing free transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flaps on 500 consecutive patients between 1992 and 2003. METHODS A retrospective review of hospital and outpatient records was performed. Specific risk factors for successful reconstruction were reviewed, including American Society of Ane...

The pectoralis major flap in head and neck reconstruction: first 500 patients.

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate almost 20 years of using the pectoralis major flap in head and neck reconstruction at the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Zagreb. PATIENTS In the period from 1981 to 1999, a total of 506 pectoralis major flaps were used for head and neck reconstruction in 500 patients. In all cases the flap was used after surgical resection of an advanced maligna...

500 Solutions

No problem is ever permanently closed. The editor is always pleased to consider for publication new solutions or new insights o n p a s t p r oblems. (1) Determine the set of all c > 0 such that whenever (1) holds, then we have x + y + z xy + yz+ zx. The positive r eals c asked for are those satisfying c 4. From (1), we have xy < c and z = c ; xy x + y + xy. Substituting this value of z into th...

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Perforator Flap versus Conventional Flap

The introduction of perforator flaps represented a significant advance in microsurgical reconstruction. However, confusion has developed due to the erroneous belief that perforator flaps are different from conventional flaps. The concept of the perforator is not new, but is an idea that evolved from the conventional flap. In fact, some of the flaps used by microsurgeons were perforator flaps. T...