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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"plastic surgery"”.
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CAPS--Computer-aided plastic surgery
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Effect of Perioperative Celecoxib on Patient Outcomes After Major Plastic Surgery Procedures
… and for a total of 4 days after major plastic surgery would improve pain control and clinically-important patient outcomes. Another objective of the study was to determine if perioperative administration of celecoxib offered any advantages over postoperative administration alone. …
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Optical sensors for the in vivo assessment of flap perfusion in plastic surgery
… chest. The success of free flap reconstructive surgery depends strongly on the maintenance of adequate perfusion in the flap. Early diagnosis of ischaemia and surgical exploration to restore blood flow can often salvage the flap and may prevent graft failure. Even though many techniques have …
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Plastic Surgery Resident Perceptions of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's 2011 Duty Hour Regulation Changes: Are Patients at Risk?
… and other medical residents have been studied, plastic surgery residents have largely been ignored. Therefore, the purpose of this ethnographic study was to describe plastic surgery residents’ perceptions of the ACGME’s 2011 duty hour regulations’ effects on patient safety. Ten plastic surgery …
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Korrelation der bioelektrischen Impedanz-Analyse (BIA) und Lebensqualität nach körperformenden Eingriffen in der Plastischen Chirurgie
Introduction: In plastic surgery, body contouring becomes more popular. In this study, long-term effects of abdominoplasty and liposuction on fat-/BMI-values and changes in quality of life were analysed. Materials and methods: The study included two patient groups who underwent plastic surgery …
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Evaluation of massive weight loss body contouring
… There is proven therapeutic benefit in bariatric surgery for obese patients. Consequently the National Institute of Clinical Excellence UK has provided referral guidelines for bariatric surgery. Successful bariatric surgery will result in massive weight loss and ptotic skin, which can cause …
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Konstruktion - Erweiterung - Rekonstruktion
… of the work of both the artist as well as the plastic surgeon and prosthetist. The idea, that a body-forming aspect constitutes the artistic as well as the medical disciplines is the basis of the present research. Against the background of this common ground this dissertation examines how, with …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… in contemporary Korean fashions, and the Korean plastic surgery industries through the processes of cutting, sewing, mending, wrapping, healing, and becoming. Locating and situating the practices of collecting jogakbo under General Park Chung Hee’s cultural reform policies, this dissertation …
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Shame and the body
… have had the resultant excess skin removed by plastic surgery. • Section B: Secondly I will explore the factors and processes which enable resilience and positive adjustment in individuals living with a visible difference. This exploration takes the form of a critical literature review. • …
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Desire for Cosmetic Procedures: An Investigation of Associated Factors
… research into cosmetic procedures has focused on plastic surgery. The present study sought to investigate non-surgical forms of cosmetic procedures, in additional to traditional surgical procedures. The study examined how self-esteem and dysmorphic concern relate to the desire for both …
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A Clinical audit of the transgender unit at Groote Schuur hospital
… affirming services, such as hormone therapy, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychosocial, and legal services. Objectives This clinical audit aimed to gain a clearer understanding of the service and areas within the service which could be improved. To this end the general compliance of the …
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An Ethical Recovery from Breast Cancer: an examination of disparities in breast reconstruction and a discussion about rectifying these disparities
… reconstruction. This disparity in breast and plastic surgery care is unethical and has been documented in the literature and has been witnessed clinically, but far most importantly, it is continued to be lived by Black women all over the nation. The bioethical principles of agency and social …
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Optimierung der Proliferation und Differenzierung humaner Präadipozyten durch den Einsatz von humanem Serum
… of soft tissue defects is a challenge in plastic surgery and there is clinical need for adequate solutions. A promising solution is adipose tissue engineering with preadipocytes. These adipogenic precursor cells have the ability to proliferate and differentiate into adipose tissue after …
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The Prevalence of the Need for Esthetic Crown Lengthening in Post Orthodontically Treated Subjects
… can begin to quantify their need for periodontal plastic surgery. In this two part study, 200 plaster models were used as subjects, followed by a clinical exam of 31 of those subjects. These models represented patients before and directly after orthodontic therapy, and the Part 2 clinical exams …
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Expression of myofibroblasts and identification of angiotensin receptors in capsular contracture disease around mammary implants
… breasts excised from eight patients undergoing surgery for capsular contracture in the Department of Plastic Surgery at Royal Preston Hospital were harvested. Tissue was dissociated into myofibroblasts using collagenase and cultured to determine growth patterns. Expressions of myofibroblasts and …
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Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin
… scarred, as exemplified by Joyce Wildenstein's plastic surgery excesses. The speakers in these poems rue their missed chances, lost loves, ageing bodies, and crowded histories of wrong men. They offer their sins in confession but are unsure whether such disclosure can free them from the mistakes …
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Anthropometric Changes in a Prospective Study of 100 Patents Requesting Breast Reduction
… hundred patients (200 breasts) presenting to the Plastic Surgery Clinic for bilateral breast reduction were enrolled in this study. Patient's characteristics captured for this study included age, body mass index (BMI), and breast anthropometric measurements, such as suprasternal notch to nipple, …
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Techniques for Ocular Biometric Recognition Under Non-ideal Conditions
… region in improving face recognition under plastic surgery. A score-level fusion approach that combines information from the face and ocular regions is proposed. The proposed approach, unlike other previous methods in this application, is not learning-based, and has modest computational …
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Untersuchung zur Bedeutung der sozialen Unterstützung und spezielle Bewältigungsfaktoren bei posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung nach akuter Traumatisierung
… (n=37) and tumours (46) of the department Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery of the RWTH Aachen University with regard to a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Six days after admission (T1) and four months later (T2) we employed the ‘Impact of Event Scale’ (IES), the ‘Aachen …
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