Pediatric Malignancies in Plastic Surgery

Pediatric Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Otoplasty is surgery to correct protruding ears. Ely first wrote about otoplasty in 1881. In the Archives of Otology Ely described a 12-year-old boy who came to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital with a complaint that his companions ridiculed him because of the prominence of his ears. Ely, through a postauricular incision, excised skin and cartilage to correct the protruding ear. In 1889, Keen ...

Pediatric facial plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in infants and children. The peak incidence of rhabdomyosarcoma occurs in children between 2 and 5 years of age, and a second peak is seen in teenagers between 15 and 19 years of age. In the final report of 686 patients from the First Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study (IRS), the median age at diagnosis for a child presenting with rhabdomyo...

Fungal Infections in Pediatric Patients with Hematologic Malignancies

As the data on the epidemiology and outcome of fungal infections in children with hematologic cancer are limited especially in Iran, this study was aimed to delineate the epidemiologic features and outcome of fungal infections in this population. The medical records of all children with hematologic malignancies diagnosed with a fungal infection from 2005 to 2010 at a tertiary pediatric hospita...

Plastic surgery management in pediatric meningococcal-induced purpura fulminans.

Purpura fulminans associated with meningococcemia is a devastating disease in children. The tissue loss can be extensive and difficult to determine at the outset. The authors suggest a strategy to manage these wounds with the goal of preserving as much tissue and function as possible. At the present time, conservative therapy to the wounds appears to be the best course in the initial, critical ...

Telemedicine and Plastic Surgery in India