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J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2021 Nov 14. Epub 2021 Nov 14.

Graduate Program in Translational Surgery, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil; Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Background: Breast augmentation is one of the most performed cosmetic surgeries in the world. Personality traits predict the presence of psychological and social factors that may affect the patient satisfaction with a cosmetic surgical procedure and may be risk factors for body dysmorphic disorder. The aim of this study was to assess symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder in patients undergoing breast augmentation and identify their personality traits. Read More

Surg Innov 2022 Aug 12:15533506221120149. Epub 2022 Aug 12.

Department of Surgical Oncology, Mansoura Oncology Center, Faculty of Medicine, 68779Mansoura University, Egypt.

Most of the publications about Laparoscopically harvested omental flap after skin sparing mastectomy were case reports or case series. Most of them were designed for partial breast reconstruction and were lacking long-term follow-up for cosmetic results, oncologic safety, and detailed methodology. Our study aimed at highlighting the place of this method of reconstruction with long-term oncologic safety and cosmetic outcome. Read More

J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2022 Jun 20. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

Plastic Surgery Group, Zurich, CH, Switzerland; University of Basel, Faculty of Medicine, Basel, CH, Switzerland.

Background: The transverse upper gracilis (TUG) flap is easily harvested to recruit a fair volume of tissue from the inner upper thigh region, making it the second choice of certain authors. Hip replacement is deemed prohibitive due to positional requirements that predispose to anterior dislocation of prosthetic femoral heads. In this report, we describe a simple and safe way to raise TUG flap in patients with existing hip prostheses, detailing patient assessments, and technical variations in a limited case series. Read More

J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2022 Jun 22. Epub 2022 Jun 22.

Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases (Peking Union Medical College Hospital). Electronic address:

Background: In recent years, immediate replacement with a prosthesis (direct-to-implant, DTI) is gaining more popularity than two-staged methods (tissue expander followed by an implant, TEI). The safety of immediate implant-based breast reconstruction (IBR) is debatable when postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) is indicated. This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the outcomes of DTI and TEI procedures followed by PMRT. Read More

Bioinformatics 2022 Aug 12. Epub 2022 Aug 12.

Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250061, China.

Motivation: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data provides unprecedented opportunities to reconstruct gene regulatory networks (GRNs) at fine-grained resolution. Numerous unsupervised or self-supervised models have been proposed to infer GRN from bulk RNA-seq data, but few of them are appropriate for scRNA-seq data under the circumstance of low signal-to-noise ratio and dropout. Fortunately, the surging of TF-DNA binding data (e. Read More