Emergency Plastic Surgery

[Fournier's gangrene: from urological emergency to plastic surgery].

Fournier's gangrene (FG) is a rare and potentially fatal infectious disease characterised by necrotic fasciitis of the perineum and abdominal wall in addition to the scrotum and penis in men and the vulva in women. Skin loss can be very damaging and difficult to repair. This condition must be treated aggressively. Several techniques are used to reconstruct lost tissue: skin grafts, transpositio...

Litigation After Nasal Plastic Surgery

Introduction: Esthetic surgeries are among the commonest medical procedures in the world nowadays; and as statistics declare, there has been a rapid increase in the rate of rhinoplasty during the recent years. Hence, as the number of cosmetic surgeries rises, the increment in the number of physicians being sued is quite inevitable; either due to complication in rhinoplasties or even inability ...

[Plastic surgery].

VOL. 52 NO. 4 NOVEMBER 2014 SAJS 105 Plastic surgeons are frequently cal led upon to provide definitive softtissue coverage for lower l imb defects associated with compound fractures of the tibia or fibula (Gustillo-Anderson IIIB). Usually defects of the upper and middle thirds of the leg are easily managed with either gastrocnemius myocutaneous flaps or hemi-soleus muscle coverage and skin gra...

Plastic surgery.

Chair Campus Anatomy & Neurobiology Matthew Ennis, PhD Memphis Anesthesiology Robert M. Craft, MD Knoxville Anesthesiology R. Lebron Cooper, MD Memphis Clinical Medical Education Jordan R. Asher, MD (Interim) Memphis Comparative Medicine Timothy D. Mandrell, DVM Memphis Dermatology Tejesh Patel, MD (Interim) Memphis (Eff 7.1.2016) Emergency Medicine David C. Seaberg, MD Chattanooga Emergency Me...

Plastic Surgery.