It becomes obvious that fat tissue is not just storage of excess carbohydrate. It is a regenerative complex supporting from the skin surface to deeper organs comprising adult stem cells as well as high energy resource related with tissue repair and regeneration. Fat grafting technique, which has been performed for more than hundred years, is utilized to improve defects of facial contour, fat at...

I n autologous breast reconstruction after mastec-tomy, fat induration is a rather common complication that causes deep tissue infection, pain, and contracture deformity. Follow-up for fat induration provides important clues after breast reconstruction with an autologous flap because fat induration is the clinical stage before fat necrosis that may lead to the need for corrective surgery. Our u...

The relation which exists between certain dise~es of the pancreas and fat-necrosis has been emphasized especially by Fitz in his comprehensive studies of pancreatiti8. According to this author ~ disseminated fat-necrosis in the abdominal cavity is comparatively infrequent in the suppurative form of pancreatitis, while it is relatively common in the hmmorrhagic and the gangrenous varieties. Ba]s...

We investigated the preventive effect of lycopene on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-induced by high-fat diet in rats. Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 4 groups. They were fed standard diet, high-fat diet (HFD), high-fat diet plus lycopene at a dose of 2 mg/kg body weight and the high-fat diet lycopene at a dose of 4 mg/kg BW for a period of 6 weeks. Inflammation, steatosis, α-smoo...

BACKGROUND To report the clinical outcome after a Single Shot 3D-CRT PBI (SSPBI) in breast cancer patients after conservative surgery (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01316328). METHODS A dose of 18 Gy (in the first 4 patients) and 21 Gy (in the remaining 60 patients) was prescribed in a single session and delivered to the index area (i.e. the area of breast including the primary tumor bed ...

BACKGROUND Latissimus dorsi flap is one of the best options for immediate and delayed breast reconstruction. However, this technique is limited by the tissue volume provided by the flap. To improve breast volume while reducing complications, fat grafting is now very often used in addition to latissimus dorsi flap. To the best of our knowledge, fat grafting was always performed as a second-line ...