Reconstructive procedures normally cost thousands of dollars but Tumbashyan and his team have been offering cosmetic reconstructive surgery to victims of the conflict for free. /Stephanie Freid/CGTN Reconstructive procedures normally cost thousands of dollars but Tumbashyan and his te...
SOFT tissue tumorsWide local excision (WLE) or Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) with histologically negative margins became the main treatments. The scar was evaluated with the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS) and the patient and observer Scar Assessment Scale (SAS).2 The score was 10 (VSS), 35 (...
1.Suitable for surgery and cosmetic wound as auxiliary adhesive care;2.The wound care after surgical stitches, such as the scar prevention of cesarean, thyroid, breast hyperplasia, cosmetic laser surgery to oppress the scar, preventing wound from widening thickening,...
Optical fibers deliver laser light that helps image the severity of arteriosclerosis, break apart plaques with ablation, and heal damaged tissue after surgery. DOUGLAS FARMER, SENIOR EDITORDOUG.FARMER@PHOTONICS.COM Patients with heart disease often face a daunting journey from diagnosis to treatment. T...
The cellular and molecular cross-talk between stressed or damaged hepatocytes, activated macrophages, and stellate cells drives matrix protein deposition—leading to the synthesis of scar tissue in the liver.66 The 2-hit hypothesis suggests the first core hit to be peripheral insulin resistance (IR)...
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China 2Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Faculty of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China 3Department of Biomedica...
surgery causes scar tissue. If you've readmy shoulder pain articles, you'll know how scar tissue can actually hamper the function of a joint. And third, the post-surgical treatmentis rehabilitation. In my opinion, if you have to do the rehab anyway, and the rehab alone might remove the...
Can I just get surgery? Partial circumcision, dorsal slit surgery, and preputioplasty have a high failure rate. In asmall study of 22 boys, 8 were unhappy with the result, and 3 went on to further surgery. Preputioplasty is not even offered in Canada due to its poor results. After co...
2 Artificial tears, punctal plugs, and scleral lenses are also often used (after control of inflammation); however, these options are palliative in nature to decrease tear evaporation, provide lubrication, and decrease continuous ocular surface trauma.2 Other recent advances that show promising ...
the catheter device is improperly sized or unable to adjust to the contours of the target tissue, some portion of the target tissue may remain after the ablating procedure. The living tissue may not block the irregular impulses from the pulmonary vein to the atrium, thus permitting future occurr...