METHODS: 60 patients who had non-melanocytic skin cancer on the only nasal tip were included in this study. There was no previous history of nasal surgery, allergic rhinitis, concha hypertrophy and other breathing problems in any patients. Six patients were treated with forehead flap, ten patients nasolabial island flap, twenty patients bilobe flap that based on inferior, 24 patients bilobe fla...

The reconstruction of defects in the oral cavity after a large resection of intraoral cancer is relatively difficult because of its specific anatomical char acter and the exposure to infection from the oral bacterial flora. A forehead flap, or a deltopectoral flap, and a recently developped free flap with microvascular anastmosis has been the chosen method for the recon struction of defects in ...

BACKGROUND The thin and pliable skin of the neck is a region with multidirectional activity, and postburn scar contractures tend to form there easily. The supraclavicular flap is used to correct neck scar contractures. Its main vascular supply is the supraclavicular artery, and it can be harvested as either a skin pedicle flap or an island flap (vascular pedicle flap). OBJECTIVE In this artic...

INTRODUCTION The use of flaps or grafts is mandatory in patients with longer and complex strictures. In 1995-96 we described a new dorsal onlay graft urethroplasty. Over time, our original technique was better defined and changed. Now this procedure (also named Barbagli technique) has been greeted with a fair amount of enthusiasm in Europe and in the United States. SURGICAL TECHNIQUE The pati...

OBJECTIVE Hypospadias is a common birth defect of the penis. Besides the abnormal position of the urethral opening, there is usually a ventral preputial defect with preputial redundancy in dorsal shaft. There are many flap procedures for correcting this defect. Here, we present our experience of skin coverage procedure with better cosmetic results. METHODS It is a prospective study on patient...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this article are to introduce and assess the results of a long-term follow-up of using anterograde pedicle flap based on the dorsal branches of proper digital neurovascular bundles from the dorsum of the middle phalanx for the fingertip defect. METHODS Between February 2011 and December 2012, 31 patients underwent reconstruction of fingertip defects using a homodigi...

The rodent preputial gland is one of the major sources of odours and is reported to be involved in several behavioural activities. However, how the preputial gland initiates the olfactory response to manifest the effects is not known. Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) present in the olfactory epithelium are involved in the perception of odorant/pheromonal compounds. In the present study, the re...