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Auricular reconstruction: flip-flop flap
1 June 2022
| Christopher Thompson, Miles Bannister
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PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Maxillofacial Surgery
Describing an approach to the straightforward and reliable flip-flop axial flap for reconstruction of the conchal bowl subunit of the auricle. The ‘flip-flop’ flap describes an axial subcutaneous island flap lying between the auricular sulcus and mastoid process. The flap...
The importance of continuing professional development in rhinoplasty
1 February 2018
| Pietro Palma (Prof), Dirk J Menger
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PMFA - Rhinoplasty
The PMFA Journal team invited two world-renowned rhinoplasty surgeons to reflect on the importance of life-long learning in their chosen specialty. The vital role of continuous surgical training in rhinoplasty By Pietro Palma Rhinoplasty can be a most rewarding operation...
Further thoughts on hymenoplasty
1 February 2016
| Joe Niamtu III
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PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
The interesting and controversial article on hymenoplasty published in the Dec/Jan 16 issue of PMFA News is an example of what can happen when religion and culture clash with modern medicine. In my opinion, medicine and science should be pure...
CO2 laser treatment of rhinophyma
7 December 2020
| Muhammad Umair Javed, Adam Hague, Barbara O’Leary, Maxwell Murison
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PMFA - CPD, PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
This article has been verified for CPD. Click the button below to answer a few short questions and download a form to be included in your CPD folder. The authors describe their technique and experience of treating rhinophymas with a...
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 1)
31 May 2021
| Andrew Burd (Prof Rtrd.)
On the 8 December 2020, Justice Judianna Barnes sentenced Dr Mak Wan-ling to three and a half years in prison. The charge for which she was found guilty was gross negligence manslaughter (GNM). She had injected a contaminated blood sample into a patient and the patient had died. The conviction was fundamentally flawed.
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 4)
21 July 2021
| Andrew Burd (Prof Rtrd.)
I want to return to the case of Dr Mak, who was, from the available evidence, caught up in a miscarriage of justice that arose because of a lack of effective interprofessional communication in the legal process.
Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 23a) – forensic snoring
21 April 2022
| Andrew Burd (Prof Rtrd.)
If a person is snoring that means they are breathing. If they are breathing and their skin is of a normal colour does that not suggest that they are oxygenating the tissues?
Part three: Aye, Aye. AI?
26 March 2025
| Andrew Burd (Prof Rtrd.)
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AI, clinical guidelines, good practice, oncology, melanoma, cosmetic, aesthetic surgery
I wonder whether we should use the term 'augmented intelligence' rather than 'artificial intelligence'. I say this because at this moment in our evolution, artificial intelligence (AI) always begins with human intelligence. In this blog, I want to examine how...
How I Do It - Reduction thyroplasty
1 August 2014
| Kenneth MacKenzie, Jenny Montgomery
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PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Introduction Male to female transgender patients often undergo reduction thyroplasty – a procedure to reduce the external appearance of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx, and feminisation of the voice. Reduction thyroplasty, often erroneously called ‘tracheal shave’, is one of...
COVID-19: a threat or a warning?
5 March 2020
| Andrew Burd (Prof Rtrd.)
Soon the public health implications of COVID-19 will be clearer. In Hong Kong, life has changed so much these past six months. The riots, the protests, the arson, the anarchy. And now nature shows what she can do.
Letter from Hong Kong (3 November 2020)
3 November 2020
| Andrew Burd (Prof Rtrd.)
It is seven months since I wrote the first ‘Letter from Hong Kong’. The message then was simple: “Fear is okay, panic is not and wear masks”. It is one month since I wrote the last letter and that message? “Life goes on and will go on no matter what.”
Plastic surgery trainees’ exposure to cosmetic surgery during training
2 February 2019
| Elinor Warner
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PMFA - General Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Rhinoplasty, PMFA - Breast Surgery
Cosmetic surgery is an essential component of plastic surgery training and is required in order to CCT. However, the training opportunities in UK are limited. The current operative requirements for plastic surgery trainees are 100 procedures during specialist training, either...
