background gigantomastia is a rare condition characterized by excessive breast growth and can be physically and psychosocially disabling for the patient. regarding management of gigantomastia, this study evaluates the outcomes of superomedial pedicle with vertical scar or wise pattern skin excision. methods a total of 425 patients who underwent reduction mammoplasty in our institution were revi...

background: replacement of the lost tissue is the major concerns of the plastic surgeons. expanded area should be coherent with the surrounding tissue. tissue expansion technique is the reforming methods the skin tissue scarcities. several methods for tissue expansion are available; including usage of silicon balloon and injecting fluid into the tissue expander. materials and methods: in a clin...

objective: to compare outcome of patients with burns covering less than 15% of total body surface area(tbsa) undergoing early excision and grafting or delayed skin grafting. method : this was a non-randomized clinical trial including 54 patients with less than 15% tbsa burn referring to ghotboddin hospital of shiraz. they were assigned to two study groups, each group including 27 patients: the ...

Scar endometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissues with glands in previous incision or scar. Its overall estimated incidence after post-caesarean and post-hysterectomy 0.03-0.4% 1.08-2%, respectively. The patient presents non-specific symptoms such as cyclical abdominal pain at site a surgical an lump increment size, which tender. diagnosis made only excision confirmation by histopatholo...

Introduction : Abnormal scar recurrence can occur and often be greater than pre-excision because the rate is giving a high percentage. Data about keloid hypertrophic are rarely found in Indonesia. Therefore, it necessary to conduct research related abnormal scar, aims determine incidence of support future by valuable data. Method A retrospective descriptive study that evaluated post-excision pa...

BACKGROUND Depending on the cause, 40-90% of every deep dermis insult ends up in scar formation. Several modalities have been suggested as a treatment but a high rate of recurrence is reported in most of those interventions. High dose radiotherapy has been shown to be effective in reducing the recurrence rate. This study tried to determine the effectiveness of low dose rate radiotherapy follow...

Background: There are different treatment options with variable results for the management of pyogenic granuloma (PG). The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the cosmetic results and recurrence rate of classic surgical excision with a novel proposed method, curettage and punch excision of the vascular stalk (C&P;) ...

Scar endometriosis is a rare form of extra-pelvic endometriosis that can occur after surgery involving the uterus. Direct mechanical implantation seems to be the most conceivable theory for scar endometriosis. Patient usually presents with lump and pain at surgical site. Often the diagnosis of endometriosis is not suggested until histology has been performed. We hereby present a case of scar en...