443 Pneumomediastinum is a rare complication that occurs after facial bone contouring surgery. However, it is considered as a life-threatening complication, and it is difficult to prevent pneumomediastinum as it occurs due to unknown or unexpected reasons. There are two suggestive causes of pneumomediastinum that occurs in association with facial bone contouring surgery. First, pneumomediastinu...

the neck is normally a concave and highly mobile structure. facial and cervical skin is prone to burn scar contracture because of its thin nature. the goal of treatment is to reconstruct this region to achieve a good aesthetic outcome and also normal neck and chin mobilization. this study was conducted to compare the effect of one row of suture and three rows of suture in critical points of the...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of evidence within the plastic surgery literature concerning risk stratification and management of patients with respect to thromboembolic disease. A retrospective chart review was conducted to examine whether the Davison-Caprini risk-assessment model could stratify patients undergoing excisional body contouring surgery, allowing prophylaxis to be managed in an evi...

Dallas, Texas Background: There is a paucity of evidence within the plastic surgery literature concerning risk stratification and management of patients with respect to thromboembolic disease. A retrospective chart review was conducted to examine whether the Davison-Caprini risk-assessment model could stratify patients undergoing excisional body contouring surgery, allowing prophylaxis to be ma...

SUMMARY Barbed suture technology is becoming increasingly popular in plastic surgery and is now being used in body contouring surgery and facial rejuvenation. We describe the novel application of a barbed suture as a running tie-over dressing for skin grafts. The barbs act as anchors in the skin, so constant tensioning of the suture is not required. The bidirectional nature of the suture preven...

Background Cardiovascular MRI (CMR) assessment of ventricular function in patients with RV pathology requires contouring the right ventricle, which can be time-consuming due to its abnormal shape and extensive trabeculations. A semi-quantitative method to assess RV function in this patient population would be beneficial and would allow for rapid reporting of results. A recent study demonstrated...

BACKGROUND To investigate the feasibility of contouring the planning risk organ volume (PRV) for the heart, and to determine the probability of evaluating radiation dose to the heart using kilovoltage-cone beam computed tomography (kV-CBCT) in early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, who received stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen NSCLC pati...

We introduce neural dual contouring (NDC), a new data-driven approach to mesh reconstruction based on (DC). Like traditional DC, it produces exactly one vertex per grid cell and quad for each edge intersection, natural efficient structure reproducing sharp features. However, rather than computing locations crossings with hand-crafted functions that depend directly difficult-to-obtain surface gr...