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Surgical oncology and reconstructive surgery
Surgical treatment, correction of scars and defects in search of health
Surgery is an extensive field of medicine that treats a number of afflictions of both superficial and inner areas of our body. It encompasses a range of specialities including surgical oncology and reconstructive surgery. Surgery is often the key way of fighting some neoplasms and is important to the general population as these conditions are common. In the face of an increasing need to treat cancers, correction of postoperative scars and deformities is a frequent medical challenge. On the other hand, reconstructive plastic surgery deals with treatment of native defects.
Skin lumpectomy
Our body is covered with skin, which has a protective function. This outside coating is continually exposed to scratches and cuts or harmful effects of UV radiation or detergents. Skin condition depends not only on how we treat it and care for it but is also affected by what’s going on inside our bodies. A number of diseases and organ malfunctions are manifested with lesions of the cuticle, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue. Skin lesions may have varying ethologies, natures, and scales. They are formed as lumps, cysts, angiomas, or birthmarks. Lipomas of fatty cells, ganglions formed near tendons and joints, fibromas and angiofibromas, rheumatoid nodules, warts, and steatomas on the face, head, hands, and thorax. Their emergence gives rise to anxiety as they are often associated with cancers. Although not every lesion is dangerous, it’s a good idea to consult each case with a doctor and undergo relevant treatment, especially if pain is caused or mobility of a body part is compromised. Some do disappear spontaneously, but most require specialist interventions and excision of affected tissue is the most effective method of elimination. In case of doubts as to the nature of an excised lesion, it’s tested for histopathologies.
Correction of scars and post-traumatic deformities
We encounter quite a few events during our lifetime that leave permanent traces on our bodies. Injuries may cause traumas to internal organs and can appear on someone’s skin as scars or post-traumatic deformities. Curious about the world as children that make their first steps, learning to bike or skin, we are liable to rubs, cuts and contusions that leave marks of our bravery as scars. Accident or fire victims sustain burns, body part deformities or tissue loss. Any, even the most limited surgical intervention that involves a skin incision will produce scars. They can be also caused by burning with chemicals, incorrect medical procedures or chemotherapy. Although most post-traumatic deformities and scars do not have any major effects on bodily functions as a rule, some people have aesthetic issues about them that may lead to social withdrawal or mood disorders.
Extent of a surgery, nature of injuries, individual organic predisposition to healing, and care of skin abrasions will all have impact on the ultimate appearance and nature of a scar. Adequate care for a post-operative location that has been correctly sutured leaves scars that are not overly manifest after healing and even hard to distinguish from healthy skin after some time in most cases. The healing process may happen not to proceed normally and hard nodes arise that not only don’t look too good but also interfere with normal living.
Post-traumatic scars and deformities can be effectively treated surgically. If a trace of a healed skin incision or abrasion is unappealing, hypertrophied, thickened, inflexible or restricts motion of a body part, correcting such imperfections is worth considering. The surgical scar treatment consists in excision of too apparent, extensive, and troublesome keloids. The skin in the operated region is sewn back again with all due diligence. Treating skin imperfections resulting from boiling water, fire, current or chemical burns will occasionally require not only excision of abnormally healed wounds but also skin transplants.
A correct therapeutic procedure will not liquidate scars fully but make them less manifest and extensive. The Patient will get rid of all or most of contractures caused by the scars and thereby improve mobility of the affected body parts.
Smaller traces after wound healing may continue to be treated by means of aesthetic medical procedures. Platelet rich plasma that mobilises the skin to regenerate, laser therapy to facilitate healing and cell reconstruction or a range of peeling and mesotherapy techniques will be effective here.
Scar treatment is a long process that requires patience, yet its possible effects are aesthetically and functionally spectacular.
Our clinic not only corrects scars but also carries out successful surgeries to liquidate or reduce post-traumatic deformities. We specialise in corrections of facial, nasal, auricular, and blepharo deformations. We also repair tissue defects as a result of accidents, surgeries, or oncological treatment. We have years of experience in breast reconstruction with a number of techniques, including autogenic fat transplants, implants or skin flaps from distant body parts. Added to al that, we carry out a whole panel of thoracic and extremity reconstructions.
Correction of innate defects
2-4% babies are estimated to be born with developmental defects, that is, any irregularities of their overall anatomy. Anomalies arising at the stage of foetal development may affect any of our inner systems: respiratory, digestive, nervous, circulatory, urinary, ossiferous, and skeletal. Developmental defects occur to the facial skeleton, genitals, and other body areas. Foetal irregularities may have substantial effect on a child’s health, subsequent development, and efficiency and may continue for their whole life. Some developmental defects are limited to aesthetic imperfections without impact on organic functions that can be successfully corrected with plastic surgical procedures. Regretfully, a group of children, especially sufferers from defective syndromes, are liable to mental handicaps.
There are a number of causes of developmental irregularities. These can be both genetic and certain viral conditions suffered in pregnancy: toxoplasmosis, rubella or chickenpox. The risk of developmental defects rises in children of diabetic Patients. X-rays, some medication, and alcohol are some more harmful impacts on would-be mothers. Malnutrition, folic acid and vitamin deficits may also interfere with normal formation of a new life. Unfortunately, ethology of more than a half of these anomalies is never known.
Treatment of developmental defects should be carefully considered and planned. It occasionally begins as early as the foetal stage. A large part of the abnormalities, however, are detected and treated after a baby is born.
Our clinic specialises in treatment of nose, lip, palate, eyelid, ear, face and neck, breast and chest, finger and toe developmental defects. We undertake procedures to correct drooping, inverted and everted eyelids. We have successfully carried out a number of reconstructive surgeries of auricles or their parts or correcting nasal appearance and functions. We also correct cheiloschisis and cleft palate, we operate omphalocele.
As far as hand and foot deformities are concerned, our surgeries are designed to repair developmental defects of the ossiferous and skeletal system. We treat polydactyly – the developmental abnormality of extra fingers or toes. We operate soft tissue and osseous structures in conjoined fingers (syndactyly) as well. As needed, skin transplants are carried out in syndactyly.
We focus on continuing improvement of surgical oncology and reconstructive surgery procedures as they not only allow the Patient to regain their lost beauty but also significantly contribute to enhanced comfort of their everyday life.