BACKGROUND From Nov 2001 to Mar 2006, 176 patients underwent body contouring plastic surgery after prior biliopancreatic diversion (BPD). Weight loss had varied from 30-100 kg. The plastic surgery targeted the arms (24 patients), breast (58), abdomen (62) and thighs (20), plus torsoplasty (12). METHODS BPD is a "non-cosmetic" bariatric operation which results in malabsorption and subsequent m...

OBJECTIVE Body contouring surgery is in high demand following the increase in bariatric surgery. Massive weight loss leads to an excess of lax, overstretched skin causing physical and psychosocial discomfort. Plastic surgical procedures can give rise to an improvement in quality of life, but the relative high complication rate could negatively affect these potential gains. The purpose of this s...

PURPOSE Skin is a major organ at risk in breast-conserving therapy (BCT). The American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) recommendations require monitoring of maximum dose received, however, there is no unambiguous way of skin contouring provided. The purpose of this study was to compare the doses received by the skin in different models. MATERIAL AND METHODS Standard treatment plans of 20 patients...

OBJECTIVE Body contouring surgery has become a steadily increasing part of weight loss treatment in the population of patients electing to undergo bariatric surgery. This study aims to elicit factors that can be used to prognosticate which bariatric surgery patients will choose to undergo body contouring procedures. METHODS A database of 381 patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery betwe...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence and predictors of venous thromboembolism following body contouring. METHODS The authors reviewed the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database from 2005 to 2012 for all body contouring cases. A multivariate logistic regression was performed to determine predictors of venous thromboembol...

A modified error-diffusion algorithm that eliminates the false-texture contour phenomenon that usually appears in the halftone images is presented. The main idea behind our modification is to introduce a local filter that can smooth the false-texture contours of the low variation regions in the images generated by the standard error-diffusion algorithm. Experimental results are included.

PURPOSE To evaluate the interobserver variability of gross tumor volume (GTV) - delineation of Dominant Intraprostatic Lesions (DIPL) in patients with prostate cancer using published MRI criteria for multiparametric MRI at 3 Tesla by 6 different observers. MATERIAL AND METHODS 90 GTV-datasets based on 15 multiparametric MRI sequences (T2w, diffusion weighted (DWI) and dynamic contrast enhance...

PURPOSE To develop a computer algorithm to measure myocardial infarct size in gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and to validate this method using a canine histopathological reference. MATERIALS AND METHODS Delayed enhancement MR was performed in 11 dogs with myocardial infarction (MI) determined by triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC). Infarct size on in vivo and ex vivo imag...