Clinical Progress in Microsurgical Reconstruction: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 682
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plastic and reconstructive surgery; microsurgery; facial plastic surgery; maxillofacial surgery; head and neck surgery
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Clinical Progress in Microsurgical Reconstruction: 2nd Edition”. In our previous Special Issue entitled “Clinical Progress in Microsurgical Reconstruction”, we collected high-standard original articles and review papers covering a wide range of topics. This is a continuation of the previous series.
Microsurgery is a fundamental cornerstone of the armamentarium of a reconstructive surgeon and often represents the only resource available to manage complex and challenging post-traumatic or post-oncological defects, morbid conditions such as lymphedema, and reconstructive needs like genital gender-affirming surgery, which is essential for a patient’s self-perception and social life.
Since the 2000s, new technological tools, such as microvascular anastomotic coupling devices, major improvements in magnification in the surgical field associated with fluorescence for assessing patency and microvascular perfusion, the spread of effective software for Virtual Surgical Planning (VSP), and the introduction of augmented reality, have brought new excitement regarding microsurgery and its future applications.
This progress in the field of microsurgery provides the opportunity to greatly increase the final treatment outcomes for patients in a predictable manner, with significant reductions in morbidity, invasivity, and recovery time, and improvements in functional and esthetic results.
The aim of this Special Issue is to emphasize these improvements through the publication of papers addressing the above topics with solid scientific evidence. Basic research papers, clinical papers, and reviews focused on clinical progress in microsurgical reconstruction are all highly encouraged for submission.
Dr. Olindo Massarelli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microsurgery
- supermicrosurgery
- microvascular anastomosis
- head and neck reconstruction
- oro-maxillofacial re-construction
- plastic and reconstructive surgery
- limb reconstruction
- breast reconstruction
- genital reconstruc-tion
- lymphedema
- lymph nodes transfer
- facial reanimation
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