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The Primacy of the Vianeo Family in the Invention of Nasal Reconstruction Technique
No full textThe birth of plastic surgery is identified with the history of rhinoplasty, which was practiced in ancient India when nose amputations were a common practice. Nose reconstruction was the most frequent surgical operation required in India at that time, and it was based on the use of a forehead flap and called an Indian method. The revolution of this technique took place in the south of Italy in the 15th century with the introduction of "the Italian method" invented by 2 families: the Brancas from Sicily and the Vianeos from Calabria. In our opinion, many questions remain as to why the Branca and Vianeo families began nose reconstruction; how and from whom they learned this technique; and which of the 2 families was first to practice it. Gustavo Branca has been always considered as the inventor of the Italian method. Historical references date Brancas in the first half of 15th century and Vianeos in the second half of the same century, but the dates can be inverted. Vianeos are no more the successor, but they are contemporary or immediately predecessors because by our documentation Vincenzo Vianeo, first surgeon of his family, performed rhinoplasty operation in the early years of the 15th century. Copyright © 2010 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
The "Nordstrom Suture" to Enhance Scalp Reductions
No full textThe authors compared the results of 10 scalp reductions using the “Nordstrom suture” with the earlier published results of scalp reductions without a device to prevent stretch-back and of reductions with extenders. At 1 month postoperatively, the Nordstrom suture eliminated the stretch-back of 8.3 mm seen in earlier studies and, in fact, it shrank the bald area. The average shrinking achieved with the Nordstrom suture was 16.9 mm (i.e., 143 percent improvement over scalp reductions alone). Scalp extenders shrank the bald area, but the Nordstrom suture shrank the area about three times more than extenders at 1 month postoperatively. (Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 107: 577, 2001.
Is buffalo hump fat the perfect filler for facial wasting rehabilitation? Reflection on three cases
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Abdominal desmoid tumors. A new reconstructive approach.
No full textINTRODUCTION:
Desmoid tumors are rare soft tissue tumors derived from musculoaponeurotic structures of the abdominal wall musculature. Although they are considered benign tumors because they don't metastasize to other parts of the body, they are clinically considered as malignant for their high tendency on infiltrative growth with local invasion and trend to recurrence after local excision. Several reconstructive techniques are proposed in the literature.
METHODS:
Nine female patients with abdominal desmoid tumors underwent the removal of a mass of tissue running from the skin to peritoneum near the tumor with a safety margin in macroscopically normal tissue at least of 5 centimeters from the edge of the tumor. After wide excision, a polypropylene mesh was placed in the rear muscular pocket without anchoring suture (sliding mesh sutureless hernioplasty)
RESULTS:
No patients had perioperative complications or abdominal wall weakness or an incisional hernia in the following 5 years.
CONCLUSIONS:
We consider this technique of abdominal wall reconstruction after desmoid tumor removal a simple procedure that reduces relapsing events and recurrences of abdominal hernia, reducing tension and pain caused by the traditional suture repair technique
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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