Background and Aim. The optimum management of Bowen's Disease (BD) is undefined. A review of current practice is required to allow the development of best practice guidelines. Methods. All BD cases, diagnosed in one UK centre and one Australian centre over a year (1 July 2012-30 June 2013), were analysed retrospectively. Patients with BD were identified from histopathology reports and their med...

INTRODUCTION: Effective leaders are critically important to the success and stability of a surgical division. The selection of an appropriate candidate, therefore, involves multiple variables. Previous studies have investigated institutional factors that contribute to a successful candidate. The purpose of this study is to evaluate educational and research trends in academic plastic surgery ver...

This document is the second deliverable produced within WP2 in the PLASTIC project. This deliverable describes the PLASTIC UML2 profile that concerns the starting point of the whole PLASTIC development process (described in PLASTIC Deliverable D2.1 – http://wwwc.inria.fr/plastic/deliverables/plastic-d2_1-finalpdf.pdf/download). It is a concrete implementation of the PLASTIC conceptual model (de...

background various studies have been conducted in many countries to determine the perception/awareness about plastic surgery. the present study assessed the views of college students about plastic surgery. methods a questionnaire consisted of nine questions regarding the basic knowledge about plastic surgery was randomly distributed among college students. the students were given 20 minutes to ...

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 t...

abstract   background: the compounds which contain nitrogen entering the environment can cause some problems, such as eutrophication for water resources and potential risk for human health because of methemoglobinemia and cancer. biological techniques are effective in removing nitrate. the aim of this study was to remove nitrate from groundwater using denitrification. the main objectives of thi...

background: replacement of the lost tissue is the major concerns of the plastic surgeons. expanded area should be coherent with the surrounding tissue. tissue expansion technique is the reforming methods the skin tissue scarcities. several methods for tissue expansion are available; including usage of silicon balloon and injecting fluid into the tissue expander. materials and methods: in a clin...

Memories fade, alas, and more rapidly with age, though the aging brain holds more tenaciously to the longer past. Or does it? The brain may be continually editing those seemingly clear memories. That the immature brain constructs, "sculpts" itself by configuring its neural linkages to make best use of the sensory input received in early life has been known for decades. The more recent news is t...

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...