Plastic Surgery
Feature
LGBTQ students would get new protections under Biden plan
The update would ensure that government-funded schools make proper accommodations for a trans student population, such as allowing students to use...
From the Journals
Combo of excision, cryosurgery found to benefit keloid scar outcomes
Intramarginal excision (shaving) of a keloid scar followed by an immediate single session of contact cryosurgery was associated with significantly...
From the Journals
Add AFib to noncardiac surgery risk evaluation: New support
Preexisting atrial fibrillation should again be part of pre–noncardiac surgery cardiac risk assessment, argues a new report.
Opinion
Breast anatomy and augmentation in transfeminine individuals
There are nuances in patient demographics, anatomy, and surgical technique that obstetricians/gynecologists should be aware of when examining...
From the Journals
Surgeons successfully reattach testis after wrong-site surgery
“The take-home message is that microsurgery can be used to reattach an organ, in the case of a wrong-site surgery.”
Opinion
Detransition, baby: Examining factors leading to ‘detransitioning’ and regret in the transgender community
Comments about the finality of gender-affirmative procedures by cisgender people reveal a more deep-seated issue – general distrust of individual...
Feature
Dermatologists take to TikTok to share their own ‘hacks’
Laypeople are still the dominant producers – and have the most views – of dermatology content on TikTok.
Conference Coverage
Filler complications involving vascular necrosis, vision changes on the rise
The three most common injection sites involving necrosis and vision changes were the cheek, the nose, and the nasolabial fold.
Feature
ED docs are cleaning up the messes of medical tourism
“It’s unfairly shifting routine outpatient surgical followup (and liability) onto me and extra cost to [the patient].”
Feature
Married docs remove girl’s lethal facial tumor in ‘excruciatingly difficult’ procedure
This patient was much like the cases they treat every day, only “several orders of magnitudes greater,” Dr. Waner said. “On a scale of 1 to 10 she...
Aesthetic Dermatology
Pandemic took a cut of cosmetic procedures in 2020
The number of minimally invasive procedures dropped by 16%, compared with 2019.