Surgical correction of esthetic deformities of the nose and septal deviations in a single session

The authors report on a survey of 73 patients who underwent rhinoplasty, and foccus on the importance of treating septal deviations and esthetic rhinoplasty deformities jointly, from March 1985 to July 1989. 28 of the 73 patients presented various degrees of nose obstruction and were treated by different procedures, according to each particualr case. Attention is called to the importance of a detailed preoperative study, including radiological evaluation, contrast facial profile study, rhinoscopy, photographs and a rhinomanometric study in those patients with a dynamic alteration of the nasal airflow. These 28 patients showed a variable degree of nose obstruction due to septal deviations, nasal bone deviations and/or hypertrophy of the turbinates associated or not to allergic alterations. A precise evaluation provided data that defined the anatomical alterations of the various types of obstruction, allowing for the best surgical option in each case. Lastly, the authors stress the importance of an anatomical and functional knowledge of the nose in order to perform these operations, as well as the use of adequate material in the surgical procedures. A single session operation allows for correction of nose deformities and obstructions, the postoperative evaluation of the obstruction being in part greatly subjective

Implante colageno na correcao de deformidades cutaneas: avaliacao preliminar. / Collagen implant for correction of cutaneous deformities: preliminary evaluation

Os autores apresentam um estudo preliminar do uso clinico do bio-implante colageno (Zyderm) atraves de infiltracoes no derme e/ou subderme, visando a correcao de defeitos cutaneos. Selecionando 14 pacientes e realizando o tratamento em cinco casos, analisam a efetividade e inocuidade do tratamento atraves de seus resultados e pesquisa de extensa bibliografia

Abdominoplastia - algumas consideracoes historicas, filosoficas e psicossociais. / Abdominoplasty - Some historical, phylosophical and psychosocial considerations

Os autores eleboram a evolucao da visao teorica e experimental da anatomia abdominal atraves de longa revisao bibliografica A importancia anatomo-antropologica, os valores etnologicos e totemicos sao enriquecidos pela analise dos silvicolas brasileiros. Os valores que apresentam esta parte do corpo no desenvolvimento da sexualidade e na propria exposicao da personalidade do homem sao analisados segundo varias escolas do pensamento moderno. As alteracoes da silhueta feminina, as perturbacoes e as patogenias que ocorrem durante o ciclo gravido-puerperal estendemse aos transtornos psiquicos que figuram como indicacoes fundamentais a abdominoplastia