Lower extremity peripheral nerve injuries can be highly morbid to patients and challenging problems for reconstructive surgeons to manage.Nerve transfers have recently emerged as a promising technique in the treatment...
Autologous fat grafting is an important surgical technique in aesthetic and reconstructive procedures.Fat grafting for breast reconstruction is now an established procedure for adding volume and improving cutaneous pl...
Targeted muscle reinnervation(TMR)is a peripheral nerve procedure that can prevent and treat postamputation pain.The nerve transfer allows for organized nerve regeneration and repair after amputation surgery.The proce...
Peripheral nerve injury(PNI)is a common source of pain and disability in patients.While many patients are affected by PNI,peripheral nerve surgery advancements in the lower extremity have lagged behind the upper extre...
Hand surgery has undergone substantial changes in recent years,especially for reconstructive surgery techniques.We discuss the management of soft tissue defects of the thumb,discussing indications,and operative pearls...
The recent development of robotic-assisted microsurgery and supermicrosurgery has raised great expectations to support some of the most demanding microsurgical procedures,which are applied in lymphatic reconstructive ...
Driven by the rapid development of big data,the amount of clinical data,including complex information,is expanding.Traditional data analysis methods cannot meet the need for mining data information,and artificial inte...
Outpatient electrodiagnostic studies and intraoperative monitoring are essential tools for the surgical management of nerve injury.Decisions are based on the diagnostic certainty afforded by outpatient electrodiagnost...
Aim:Lymphaticovenous anastomosis(LVA)is the mainstay for treating breast cancer-related lymphedema(BCRL).Preoperative ultrasonography is useful to assess the locations and characteristics of lymphatics and veins to im...
Aim:The frontal branch of the facial nerve is particularly vulnerable to traumatic injury or during surgery.While the larger branches of the facial nerve,such as the buccal branch,are more easily identifiable and amen...