Letter a incision periareolar mastopexy with breast implant augmentation

20 females with mild to moderate drooping of breasts, undergone mastopexy and augmentation of breast at the same time, through letter A [upper half of areola] periareolar incision, after pointing the position of new areola towards the narrow part of letter A. We excised the excess skin, inserted the breast implant [silicon, saline filled] according to the size that the patients selected, closed the skin in layers. High satisfaction rate about 80% was achieved with very small post operative scars and few complications. The aim of this paper is to report our surgical experience in performing one-stage mastopexy with breast augmentation, with small periarolar scar, in 20 patients with mild to moderate drooping of the breasts

Treatment of chronic lymphedema of the legs by suction with low morbidity rate

A 20-year old male complaining of severe swelling [chronic lymphedema] of both legs, thighs, with very huge mass more than 10 cm in diameter since birth, increasing in the size gradually up to 30 cm, visited our hospital, with interference in function and movement The patient was un-married. He had undergone multiple sessions of suctions of abnormal tissues by liposuction cannula at few weeks interval. We measured the size of the lesion before each session and recorded the regression of the lesion with very low morbidity rate. The patients followed up for 2 years with no recurrences

steroid benefit in treating complicated hemangiomas

The aim of this paper is to report beneficial effect of treating haemangioma with steroids. Thirty patients with complicated hemangiomas [ulceration, bleeding, obstruction of anatomical orifice, and interfere with function or movement] of different age groups collected by simple random sampling in out patient, cases were treated with local injection of diluted triamcinolone 4mg with 5m1 normal saline in multiple sessions with 2 weeks apart. After treatment 60% of cutaneous heamangioma regress in age group between 1-<2 years old, from 2-4 years old regress in about 40%, and >6 years old is about 25%