Plastic Surgery

Robotic-assisted single-port donor nephrectomy using the da Vinci single-site platform.

BACKGROUND: Although single-port donor nephrectomy offers improved cosmetic outcomes, technical challenges have limited its application to selected centers. Our center has performed over 400 single-port donor nephrectomies. The da Vinci single-site robotic platform was utilized in an effort to overcome the steric, visualization, ergonomic, and other technical limitations associated with the single...

Single-incision robotic cholecystectomy is associated with a high rate of trocar-site infection.

BACKGROUND: Single-incision robotic cholecystectomy has been developed to decrease post-operative pain and improve cosmetic results.

Effects of protein hydrolysate from chicken feather meal on tyrosinase activity and melanin formation in B16F10 murine melanoma cells.

Tyrosinase is a copper-containing enzyme that controls mammalian melanogenesis. Tyrosinase inhibitors are important for their potential application in...

Selected essential oils inhibit key physiological enzymes and possess intracellular and extracellular antimelanogenic properties in vitro.

Essential oils (EOs) extracted from six medicinal herbs and food plants [Cinnamomum zeylanicum (CZ), Psiadia arguta (PA), Psiadia terebinthina (PT), C...

Tissue Liquefaction Liposuction for Body Contouring and Autologous Fat Transfer: A Retrospective Review Over 3 Years.

Tissue liquefaction lipoplasty is a novel, low-energy method cleared for use in aesthetic body contouring and autologous fat transfer. This is a retr...

Injection Adipolysis: Mechanisms, Agents, and Future Directions.

Noninvasive procedures targeting the elimination of unwanted adipose tissues have recently been developed. injection adipolysis is the term for the in...

Antibacterial Activity of Fructus forsythia Essential Oil and the Application of EO-Loaded Nanoparticles to Food-Borne Pathogens.

essential oil (FEO) with excellent antibacterial activity was rarely reported. The objective of the present study was to investigate the antibacteria...

Microsurgery robots: addressing the needs of high-precision surgical interventions.

Robotics has a significant potential to enhance the overall capacity and efficiency of healthcare systems. Robots can help surgeons perform better qua...

Chemical composition, acute toxicity, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of Moroccan L.

Hydro-distilled essential oil (EO) from the leaves of the western Mediterranean and Moroccan endemic plant was analyzed by GC/MS and examined for its...

Prospects of Robot-Assisted Mandibular Reconstruction with Fibula Flap: Comparison with a Computer-Assisted Navigation System and Freehand Technique.

 Function and aesthetics have a significant impact on the quality of life in patients undergoing mandibular reconstructive surgery, but achieving sati...

Accelerated partial breast irradiation using robotic radiotherapy: a dosimetric comparison with tomotherapy and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy.

BACKGROUND: Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is a new breast treatment modality aiming to reduce treatment time using hypo fractionation....

Amelogenesis Imperfecta: Rehabilitation and Brainstorming on the Treatment Outcome after the First Year.

Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) affects enamel on primary and permanent dentition. This hereditary disorder is characterized by loss of enamel, poor esth...

Morinda citrifolia L. fruit extracts modulates H2O2-induced oxidative stress in human liposarcoma SW872 cells.

Morinda citrifolia L. commonly known as noni is used by the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries due to the plethora of pharmacological activities o...

Multimodal Task-Driven Dictionary Learning for Image Classification.

Dictionary learning algorithms have been successfully used for both reconstructive and discriminative tasks, where an input signal is represented with...

An in silico expert system for the identification of eye irritants.

This report describes development of an in silico, expert rule-based method for the classification of chemicals into irritants or non-irritants to eye...

A novel technique for robot assisted latissimus dorsi flap harvest.

BACKGROUND: A robotic surgery technique of harvesting the latissimus dorsi muscle flap has technical advantages over endoscopic harvest and cosmetic a...

Evaluation of combinations of in vitro sensitization test descriptors for the artificial neural network-based risk assessment model of skin sensitization.

The skin sensitization potential of chemicals has been determined with the use of the murine local lymph node assay (LLNA). However, in recent years p...

Estimation of the chemical-induced eye injury using a Weight-of-Evidence (WoE) battery of 21 artificial neural network (ANN) c-QSAR models (QSAR-21): part II: corrosion potential.

This is part II of an in silico investigation of chemical-induced eye injury that was conducted at FDA's CFSAN. Serious eye damage caused by chemical ...

Estimation of the chemical-induced eye injury using a weight-of-evidence (WoE) battery of 21 artificial neural network (ANN) c-QSAR models (QSAR-21): part I: irritation potential.

Evaluation of potential chemical-induced eye injury through irritation and corrosion is required to ensure occupational and consumer safety for indust...

Screening of Panamanian Plants for Cosmetic Properties, and HPLC-Based Identification of Constituents with Antioxidant and UV-B Protecting Activities.

A library of 600 taxonomically diverse Panamanian plant extracts was screened for DPPH scavenging and UV-B protective activities, and the methanolic e...