Recent Advances in Free Tissue Transfer, Microsurgery and Lymphedema Surgery
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 452
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soft tissue cancers; osteosarcoma; sarcoma; spine sarcoma; plastic surgery; reconstructive surgical procedures; microsurgery; breast cancer; lymphedema; breast implantation; mammoplasty; facial cancers; head and neck cancer; sarcoma, gender affirmation
Interests: plastic surgery; breast cancer; sarcoma; reconstructive surgical procedures; targeted muscle reinnervation; tissue regeneration; lymphedema; microsurgery; spine sarcoma; osteosarcoma; extremity salvage
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As technology has continued to advance, surgical techniques have had to adapt. Microsurgical instrumentation has improved, as well as our understanding of anatomy, allowing for new techniques with more predictable outcomes. Most importantly, these advances are due to the creativity of experts, like you, that help to facilitate continual evolution in the field of reconstructive microsurgery. We have seen microsurgical transfer become the preferred method of reconstruction for many disease processes of the head and neck, extremities, and breasts. These recent advancements have expanded the treatment for lymphedema, the management of peripheral nerves, and enabled gender affirmation. We would like to take this time to arrange a Special Issue that provides a snapshot of the state of the art of our specialty.
We are pleased to invite you and your co-workers to submit your original research articles reporting on the new techniques and outcomes in microsurgical reconstruction. We also encourage the submission of original manuscripts spanning from basic to clinical research, and focusing on flap design and anatomy, flap physiology, basic science related to nerve regeneration, and lymphedema. We would also like to invite you to submit review articles aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in microsurgery.
Dr. Roman Skoracki
Dr. Steven Schulz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microsurgery
- lymphovenous bypass
- lymph node transfer
- free tissue transfer
- vascularized allotransplantation
- gender affirmation
- breast reconstruction
- DIEP flap
- extremity salvage
- regenerative peripheral nerve interfaces
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