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To evaluate the outcome of reduction mammaplasty in female-to-male transgender patients.A 5-year retrospective review was conducted on all female-to-male transgender patients who underwent reduction mammaplasty. A postal questionnaire was devised to assess patient satisfaction, surgical outcome and psychological morbidity.Seventeen patients were identified. The senior author performed bilateral reduction...
Comprehensive documentation of surgical procedures is an essential component of good medical practice, but the standard of operation notes in orthopaedic and trauma surgery has been notoriously poor. The value of proformas in the production of high standard operation notes has been demonstrated in various surgical specialities. We have compared the standard of documentation of operation notes before...
Entrapment neuropathy of the terminal sensory branches of the superficial peroneal nerve (SPN) is a rare condition. Presented here are two cases with an unusual shared aetiology. Neither case responded permanently to the conventional treatment modalities of local corticosteroid and anaesthetic injection, or surgical decompression. An alternative treatment method involving excision of a cauterised...
Perforation of the lower gastrointestinal tract is rare in burns patients. A 41-year-old male, who sustained 40% total body surface area burns and subsequently developed an acute abdomen on day 15 postburn, is presented. Emergency management included a subtotal colectomy and ileostomy formation performed to repair a perforated transverse colon found at laparotomy.The burns were debrided and grafted...
Thirty-two patients were admitted to the South-East Scotland Burn Unit over a 4-year period (1990–1994), with burns sustained as a consequence of chip-pan fires. This represented 7 per cent of all admissions to the unit. Fourteen patients came from the Edinburgh city area, and 18 from surrounding countries. There were 14 males and 18 females, and an average age of 51.6 years. The average burn surface...
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