Approximately 5 percent of microvascular free-tissue transfers fail; often this is due to
microvascular or peri-anastomotic thrombosis. Various reports have advocated the use of …

Background: The primary outcome measures for patients who undergo aesthetic facial
procedures are quality of life and satisfaction with appearance. The FACE-Q, a new patient-…

Background: Plastic surgery to improve chest appearance is becoming increasingly popular.
The BODY-Q is a patient-reported outcome instrument designed for weight loss and/or …

Background Tuberous breast deformity is a rare congenital condition that often requires
surgical correction. Numerous surgical techniques have been described, reflecting the …

Appearance and facial function are concepts not well addressed in current pediatric patient-reported
outcome measures (PROM) for facial conditions. We aimed to develop a new …

Background: Patient-reported outcome measures are widely used to improve health services
and patient outcomes. The aim of our study was to describe the development of 2 ear-…

Background There is currently a lack of patient-reported outcome measures for ear reconstruction.
We developed the EAR-Q to measure ear appearance and post-operative adverse …

Pusic et al 629 whom 217 were facelift patients. 16 For our third publication, we presented 5
Appearance Appraisal Scales completed by a homogeneous sample of 225 facelift patients. …

A post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm in the ulnar digital artery of the thumb in a patient with
compromised vascularity due to a previous harvest of the ipsilateral radial artery is reported. To …

DISCUSSION Historically, the prognosis for displaced intra-articular horizontal fractures of
the metacarpal head is poor. The most commonly reported complications are avascular …