1Department of Obstetrics and Gyenceology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel 2Ruth and Baruch Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 3Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Surgery, Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA 4Department of Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery and Urogynaecology, Sydney Medical School Ne...

The oral cavity is the primary site of verbal human communication. It has many additional important functional roles, including bolus preparation and formation, taste, and deglutition. Oral cavity cancer treatment, particularly for advanced tumors (because of radical surgery), destroys the integrity of this area. Extensive reconstructive efforts are required to maintain oral continuity, to faci...

Cosmetic surgery is a surgical expertise that aims at correcting or improving body imperfections. These may be congenital, acquired, due to illness, or due to traumatic or para-physiological events such as aging. Cosmetic surgery also includes surgical procedures requested by patients to improve their appearance. In this regard, cosmetic surgery differs from reconstructive surgery, which deals ...

Penile and urethral reconstructive surgical procedures are used to treat a variety of urologic diagnoses. Urethral stricture disease can lead to progressive lower urinary tract symptoms and may require multiple surgical procedures to improve patient's symptoms. Male stress urinary incontinence is associated with intrinsic sphincter deficiency oftentimes associated with radical prostatectomy. Me...

of an ectopic, overly-descended superior parathyroid adenoma in both primary and reoperative parathyroid surgery. Methods: A prospective analysis of consecutive patients undergoing parathyroid surgery in a tertiary endocrine surgery practice from March 2004 to April 2013 was undertaken. All patients undergoing curative primary or reoperative surgery for single-gland parathyroid adenomas were id...

Charles Du Qin1, Sujata Saha1, Ryan Meacham2, Sandeep Samant2, Jon P Ver Halen3,* and John YS Kim1 1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2Department of OtolaryngologyHead and Neck Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 3Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Previous studies describing the cumulative failure rate after reconstructive surgery in patients with inflammatory bowel disease have been restricted to specific hospitals, and the generalizability of these results in a population-based setting is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the cumulative failure rate and risk factors for failure after reconstructive s...

Peter D. Witt, MD; Daniel T. Cohen, BA; Susan B. Mallory, MD; from the Departments of Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive (Drs Witt and Mr Cohen), Internal Medicine (Dermatology) (Dr Mallory), and Pediatrics (Dr Mallory), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis Children’s Hospital, and the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shriners Hospital for Children (Dr Witt), St ...