is a male-female predilection of 2:1. It has been described as freely mobile, well circumscribed, and subcuticular. Although the clinical characteristics of fibrous hamartoma have been variably reported, it has unique microscopic features. All prior cases consistently report well-defined traversing bundles of dense fibrocollagenous tissue, immature loose-textured mesenchyme, and increased areas...

Juvenile musculoaponeurotic fibromatoses are benign tumors which arise from musculoaponeurotic stromal cells. They rarely occur in lower extremity and more rarely in children. They are locally invasive tumors with a high incidence of recurrence after surgery. Hence, wide local excision is the treatment of choice for such tumors. However, complex reconstruction is often required to cover the res...

“Tips, Quips, and Pearls” is a special section in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery which is devoted to the sharing of ideas to make the practice of foot and ankle surgery easier. We invite our readers to share ideas with us in the form of special tips regarding diagnostic or surgical procedures, new devices or modifications of devices for making a surgical procedure a little bit easier, or v...

PURPOSE Female stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the involuntary leakage of urine, is a highly prevalent social and hygiene problem, and various surgical techniques have been developed to correct it. This study used the technique of an aponeurosis sling made from the rectus abdominis muscle as a standard and compared the technique to a sling made with a polypropylene mesh, (Marlex). MATERIAL...

Burn injuries and their treatment is an important medical social problem. Compartment syndrome a serious complication of deep circular burns, which causes increased subfascial pressure local tissue ischemia with the development intercellular interstitial edema significant rise intra−tissue pressure, exacerbates blood supply, enhancing hypoxicity. Treatment performed by necrotomy, due to decompr...

Primary cardiac tumor in infancy is an uncommon condition which is rarely accompanied with congenital heart disease. Although these tumors are generally benign, the complication associated with it, such as arrhythmia, outflow tract obstruction, and heart failure, may result in early mortality, when combined with congenital heart disease. Early surgical treatment may reduce complication risk and...

Abstract Incisional hernias are a well-known complicationafter liver transplantation, with an incidence of up to 15%. Conventional closure techniques such as synthetic or biological meshes do not have proper results, probably due variety factors including tension in definitive wall and the use immunosuppressive drugs that can cause necrosis wound infection. Alternative complete abdominal fascia...