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Fat Transfer & Finger Transplants: Plastic Surgery Hot Topics with Rod J. Rohrich, MD

Video Author:Rod J. Rohrich, MD

Published on:August 24, 2015

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This month Rod J. Rohrich, MD, Editor-in-Chief of "Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery," discusses two unique articles on Plastic and Reconstructive surgery. The first hot topic article asks “how much fat?” The authors attempt to find a definitive quantitative volume for fat transfers. The second article looks to the future of reconstructive surgery as the authors perform mock allotransplantion for all 5 digits. Volume 136, Issue 3.

“Is There a Safe Lipoaspirate Volume? A Risk Assessment Model of Liposuction Volume as a Function of Body Mass Index” by Chow et al.; “A Cadaver Study of the Feasibility of Multidigit Allotransplantation for Reconstruction of the Metacarpal Hand” by Rampazzo et al.

All content is available at http://prsjournal.com

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