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ANZ J Surg 2021 Mar 3. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Background: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) can trace its origins as far back as 3000 BC. Despite this, it remained a relatively rare and unestablished branch of surgery until the devastating injuries of the World Wars necessitated reconstruction. Returning wartime surgeons used the skills they had learned on the battlefield to continue PRS in Australia and New Zealand. Read More

Cureus 2021 Jan 25;13(1):e12910. Epub 2021 Jan 25.

Trauma, Olympia Hospital & Research Centre, Trichy, IND.

The neck is essential and vital for all head movements and performing daily functional activities. The second-degree deep dermal and full-thickness burns causing anterior neck contracture restricts movement and if untreated develop deformities, in the oral cavity, eyes, posture, and chin growth and development, especially in children. Neck contracture results in kyphoscoliosis, lower lip seal resulting in impaired vision, balance, swallowing, feeding, and speech as well as social stigma, depression, and embarrassment. Read More

J Craniofac Surg 2021 Mar 1. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, and CIRPLAST, Lima, Peru.

Background: CIRPLAST is a nonprofit volunteer plastic surgery program that has provided free surgery for patients with cleft lip and palate deformities in different parts of Peru since 1995. In 2015, the author reported 6,108 patients that had been successfully operated on by the CIRPLAST team over a 20-year period. A technique, developed by the author, for the straight-line vertical cleft lip closure without skin flaps of the unilateral cleft lip, was mentioned in that publication but it was not described. Read More

Injury 2021 Feb 11. Epub 2021 Feb 11.

Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, City of Bristol, UK. Electronic address:

Introduction: Open lower extremity fractures pose a challenge for treating surgeons. All surgical strategies have the common aim to facilitate fracture healing. Fracture union, however, should be critically considered in the context of functional recovery and not in isolation. Read More

J Reconstr Microsurg 2021 Mar 1. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.

Background:  Approximately half of all patients presenting for autologous breast reconstruction have abdominal scars from prior surgery, the presence of which is considered by some a relative contraindication for abdominally based reconstruction. This meta-analysis examines the impact of prior abdominal surgery on the complication profile of breast reconstruction with abdominally based free tissue transfer.

Methods:  Literature search was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. Read More