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Aesthetic refinements in C-V flap: Raising a perfect cylinder
Full text linkNipple reconstruction is the keystone procedure to complete an aesthetically satisfying postmastectomy breast reconstruction. Positioning the nipple at the edge of the breast cone and achieving symmetry with the contralateral side (native or reconstructed nipple) are critical in completing a pleasing result. Furthermore, patient expectations are always higher; aesthetics becomes of paramount concern after having gone through the feelings connected with the disease.
In our series, 70% of patients decide to undergo nipple reconstruction, our simple procedure under local anesthesia. It is performed from three to twelve months after autologous or prosthetic breast reconstruction.
The C-V flap, one of the most common techniques to reconstruct the nipple, is composed of a central C flap, the distal cap, and two V flaps, the wall of a cylinder, with a horizontal axis.1 During postoperative follow ups, we noticed that the flap folding was not completely natural and tension free, probably due to the triangular V flaps wrapping. The two V flaps, being equal and specular, binding toward each other, do not find the more natural alignment between them and, consequently, with the C flap. Our modifications in drawing a C-V flap to ensure the best folding of a geometrical cylinder is presented
Comment on “Locally advanced breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma: a combined medical-surgical approach”
Full text linkComment on 10.26355/eurrev_202105_2583
"Tre anni di studio del linfonodo sentinella nei tumori non melanocitari"-54°Congresso Nazionale S.I.C.P.R.E.
No full textReconstruction of a natural-looking umbilicus.
No full textBased on the assumption that the umbilicus is a wound that has healed by second intention, we describe a method of reconstruction. The procedure consists of complete resection of the umbilical scar and its reconstruction by a linear incision at the site of the new umbilicus and inversion of the skin hedges, which are sutured to the linea alba leaving a 1 cm space between the skin borders to cause secondary wound healing. This procedure provides a natural-looking umbilicus. It is easy and quick to do, and can be used for reconstruction after abdominoplasty, excision of a naevus, or when the umbilicus has been removed during a previous xiphopubic incision
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Correction to: Free Diced Dorsal Augmentation (FDDA) rhinoplasty in non-caucasian patients: tips and tricks (European Journal of Plastic Surgery, (2025), 48, 1, (7), 10.1007/s00238-024-02259-1)
No full textIn this article the author’s name ‘Gianluca Marcaccini’ was incorrectly written as ‘Gianlcua Marcaccini’. Authors ‘Mirco Pozzi’ and ‘Pietro Susini’ should have been denoted as equally contributing author[s]. The original article has been corrected
National Breast Reconstruction Utilization in the Setting of Postmastectomy Radiotherapy: Two-Stage Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction
No full textWe read your article “National Breast Reconstruction Utilization in the Setting of Postmastectomy Radiotherapy” and found the data on immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) that you pointed out really interesting. It is very newsworthy how IBR practice has developed since 2004 in both radiated and nonradiated patients. It is even more significant to note that since 2008, implants surpassed autologous reconstruction as the most common IBR method despite the possibility of postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT). The clinical practice at our unit follows the trend you havedescribed. However, we noticed that PMRT could cause some difficulties in heterologous IBR as biomaterial alterations or capsular contracture
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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