Severed Thumb Replaced with Big Toe!
October 31st, 2011
James Byrne, a 29-year-old man from England, accidentally sawed off his thumb. According to Catharine Paddock PhD for Medical News Today, surgeons in the UK have given him a new thumb: replacing it with a toe!
They tried to re-attach the damaged thumb but that didn’t work, so now the surgery team have attached James’s big toe in its place. Plastic Surgeon, Umraz Khan, performed the operation at Frenchay Hospital, a regional micro-surgery center in Bristol. The patient is expected to make a full recovery.
I love these stories. When I was in medical school, one of my professors described this same surgery. I decided right then and there that this was what I wanted to do. While my practice doesn’t present many opportunities for this toe/thumb transfer, I really do enjoy that particular aspect of aesthetic sculpting doing cosmetic surgery.
Lipofilling Safe for Mastectomy Patients
September 8th, 2011
Women who have fat graft injections or lipofilling after mastectomies face no greater risk of disease recurrence than those who do not undergo lipofilling, according to a recent study by European plastic surgeons.
Following surgery, many cancer patients are left with severely damaged skin and tissue. Lipofilling is a specialized fat grafting surgical procedure in which aspirated (liposuction) fat tissue is first taken from a donor site. Typical donor sites are the abdomen or flanks. Then it is centrifuged, treated and injected into the breast. The fat grafts naturally contain a population of adipose cells and the regenerative properties of the cells are particularly beneficial in healing tissue damaged by radiation.
Fat grafting is a less invasive technique to fill the void of tissue loss in reconstruction of the breasts. Liopfilling offers women another choice and it is a technique that does not require immediate action following a mastectomy.
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