Indexing International Surgery

4th International Congress of Minimally Invasive Surgery-IRAN

4th International Congress of Minimally Invasive Surgery-IRAN

Complications from international surgery tourism.

Medical tourism is an increasing trend, particularly in cosmetic surgery. Complications resulting from these procedures can be quite disruptive to the healthcare industry in the United States since patients often seek treatment and have no compensation recourse from insurance. Despite the increasing number of plastic surgery patients seeking procedures abroad, there have been little reported da...

Plastic Surgery: An International Journal

A key step in the inverted T-scar pattern breast reduction technique is the preoperative marking of the medial skin incision which will ultimately become the medial aspect of the horizontal scar in the new inframammary fold. We describe the ‘cleavage imprinting’ technique that allows the surgeon to generate mirrorimage medial imprint marks on the contralateral breast during preoperative marking...

International Text-Book of Surgery

III International Conference “Metabolic Surgery”

Videosurgery Obesity is becoming a more and more frequent disease in the world, including Poland, and is often called the epidemic of the 21 st century. Abundant accumulation of fatty tissue leads to many metabolic disturbances, such as diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and cardiovascular system diseases, the elements of metabolic syndrome. Since surgical treatment of morbid obesity (> 40 kg/m 2) was s...