Adem Özkan

Dr Adem Ozkan Clinic, Antalya, Turkey

INTRODUCTION: Bilateral breast reduction surgery is the surgical treatment of bilateral breast hypertrophy. This is one of the most common breast surgery requested by women, and performed by plastic surgeons. The reasons that patients want this surgery are to re-size sagging breasts aesthetically, and to get rid of somatic symptoms such as shoulder...

Background Reverse dorsal metacarpal flaps (RDMFs) are widely used to cover significant skin and soft tissues defects of the finger.However, there is a current lack of information regarding the use of RDMFs in the reconstruction of phalanx defects following skin tumor excision. Methods From October 2012 to April 2016, medical records of all patient...

Objective: Classic Kaposi?s sarcoma is an indolent, angioproliferative tumor that is usually observed in the lower extremities of elderly men. Depending on their stages, skin lesions are maculonodular or vegetative ulcerated masses. Visceral organ or lymph node involvement may rarely occur. There is no gold standard treatment for local diseases. Su...

Actinomycosis is a chronic granulomatous infection that commonly occurs in the cervicofacial region. Although Actinomcyes is an element of the normal oral flora, infections of the facial skin are very rare because of the entirely endogenous habitation of the organism. The authors report a case of facial actinomycosis, which mimicked a cutaneous tum...

Background: The reconstruction of the nasal defects occurring after a tumor excision is rather difficult. The purpose of this study is to present our choices of reconstruction using flaps or grafts depending on the size, localization, and depth of the nasal defects occurring after a basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma and to demonstrat...

Background: Diced cartilage grafts are important in rhinoplasty for raising the dorsum and eliminating dorsal irregularities. The most common problems with the use of diced cartilage are wrapping and cartilage resorption. Objectives: To histopathologically investigate and compare the viability of diced cartilage grafts wrapped with concentrated...

Objectives: Mucosal free grafts may be successfully applied in many surgical interventions. This study aims at investigating the feasibility of palatal mucosa graft in sub-glottic field in an animal model. Methods: This randomized prospective controlled study was conducted with an animal model. Sub-glottic inflammation was created in 15 adult ra...

Background Cartilage grafts are commonly used in nasal surgery for structural and/or esthetic purposes. The viability of cartilage grafts has been investigated in many forms since the use of cartilage grafts in surgical procedures. Objectives The objective of this study was to investigate the viability of minced cartilage grafts and whether there i...

Cross-leg free flap is a method that can be utilized in cases of serious injury where no available recipient vessels can be found in the neighboring sites to defects. Plasters or external fixators are generally used for postoperative immobilization, and generally, one of the major arteries of the uninjured extremity is sacrificed for flap revascula...

Background: Rhinophyma is a rare, disfiguring disease characterized by a slow progressive overgrowth of the soft tissue of the nose associated with end-stage severe acne rosacea. Objective: We present a case of severe rhinophyma treated successfully using PlasmaBlade and acellular dermal matrix with split-thickness skin graft. Methods: This pr...

Objective: The subscapular artery has an important place in reconstructive surgery. The major pedicles of several different flaps used widely in reconstructive surgery take their roots from this arterial tree. This study aimed to provide anatomical data relating to these vessels through the use of multidetector computed tomography angiography (MDC...

Median cleft lip refers to a vertical cleft on the midline of the upper lip. It is a rare congenital craniofacial anomaly brought about by a fusion failure in the medial nasal prominence. A novel surgical approach to median cleft lips and their repair is reported herein, with reference to a clinical case. The patient had a cleft in the lower half o...

Purpose: To investigate the re-endothelialization potential of erythropoietin (EPO) following microvascular anastomosis in rat femoral artery. Methods: Ninety-six male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing between 300 g and 320 g were allocated randomly into two groups (control and EPO, n = 48). Left femoral artery microvascular anastomosis was performed in...

The absence of the umbilicus is, in essence, an aesthetic deformity of the abdominal wall. The goal of reconstructing the umbilicus is to obtain a natural, three-dimensional appearance. In this study, we present a new technique called the "dome procedure" for the reconstruction of the umbilicus. This procedure can be applied under local anaesthesia...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a potentially fatal soft tissue infection characterized by generalized necrosis and gas formation in the subcutaneous tissues and fascia. It is rarely seen in the head and neck area. This report presents the case of a 62-year-old diabetic female patient with generalized cervicofacial necrotizing fasciitis extending to the f...

Breast cancer is the most common non-skin malignancy in women. In breast cancer, the basic principle of endocrine therapy is to deprive tumor cell from the growth-stimulating effect of estrogens. The oldest, best-known and most widely used endocrine therapy medicine is tamoxifen, which is a selective estrogen receptor blocker. All factors that are...

Although microsurgery has rapid expanded, problems related to microarterial anastomosis continue. Cigarette smoking is one of the major risks for anastomosis by increasing platelet adhesion, and its effects on endothelial cells. Aim of this article is to study the negative effects of cigarettes on microarterial anastomosis line, and to investigate...

Although microsurgery has rapid advanced, problems at the site of venous microanastomosis still continue. Thrombosis of the venous microanastomosis is the major reason for free tissue transfer and replantation complications. Erythropoietin is a principal hematopoietic regulator responsible for the proliferation and diferentiation of erythroid proge...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the nail bed is a rare malign tumor. This carcinoma is frequently misdiagnosed lesion for years before definitive diagnosis with biopsy. Seventy year old man patient who had the compla- int of ulcerative wound on the distal of his left thumb applied to our clinic. There was history of the trauma- tic event two years ago....

Defective wounds in diabetic foot are difficult to manage. Several studies reported the use of reverse sural flap in a small number of patients with varying success. We presented our experience with the reverse sural island flap (RSIF) in a series of 37 patients associated with diabetic foot using the delay procedure. The ages of the patients range...

Progressive hemifacial atrophy is characterized by slow progressive atrophy of the subcutaneous tissue. Although, in the majority of sufferers, half of the face and the chin are the most severely-affected areas, we present the case of a patient with a 2-year history of local atrophy in the forehead, a very rare involvement. Reconstruction was done...

The effects of inhalational anaesthetic agents on survival of flaps are not well known. We investigated the effect of isoflurane and sevoflurane anaesthesia on survival of flaps using a caudally-based McFarlane skin flap in 20 male Wistar rats. Sevoflurane 1 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) and isoflurane (1 MAC) in oxygen mixture was given to...

Objective: The best results in the treatment of scalp avulsion can be obtained only with microvascular replantation. There are only a small amount of paper presenting successful avulsed scalp replantation cases with one artery and vein in the literature. Case report: We present a case of successful replantation of a totally avulsed scalp with only...

Suçiçeği varicella zoster virüsünün neden olduğu ve genellikle çocukluk çağında görülen viral, döküntülü bir hastalıktır. Çocuklarda su çiçeğinin en önemli ve yaygın komplikasyonu piyojenik bakterilerin (A Grubu hemolotik streptokok) sebep olduğu nekrotizan fasiittir. Kliniğimize su çiçeği komplikasyonu nedeniyle başvuran 3 yaşındaki kız hastada al...

Amaç: Bu yazı ile bir olgu nedeniyle epulisin tanı ve tedavisi konusunda farklı yaklaşımların sunulması amaçlanmıştır. Olgu Sunumu: Yenidoğan kız çocuğu, solunum ve beslenmesini engelleyen maksiller alveoler kitlelerinin değerlendirilmesi için kliniğimize gönderildi. Üst çenede incisor ve canin dişlere uyan alanda 1.5 x 1.5 cm ve 0.5 x 0.5 cm’lik m...

Amaç: Geniş ve komplike dekübit ülserleri eski bir tedavi yöntemi olan "tam uyluk" flebi ile tedavi edilebilir. Flep kalça dezartikülasyonu ile hazırlanır ve defekti kapamak için kullanılabilir. Bu yazıda olgumuz nedeni ile "tam uyluk" flebini yeniden hatırlatmayı amaçladık. Olgu sunumu: Doğumdan bu yana her iki bacakta spastisitesi olan 35 yaşında...