How to Make Your Life Easier: Blepharoplasty Markings with Microsurgical Clamps

Vittorio Ramella, MD; Chiara Stocco, MD; Federico Facchin, MD; Luigi Troisi, MD, PhD; Giovanni Papa, MD, PhD; Zoran Marij Arnez, MD, PhD

doi:10.1097/GOX.0000000000001873

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open (Aug 2018)

How to Make Your Life Easier: Blepharoplasty Markings with Microsurgical Clamps

Vittorio Ramella, MD,
Chiara Stocco, MD,
Federico Facchin, MD,
Luigi Troisi, MD, PhD,
Giovanni Papa, MD, PhD,
Zoran Marij Arnez, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Vittorio Ramella, MD: From the * Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, University of Trieste, Italy
Chiara Stocco, MD: From the * Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, University of Trieste, Italy
Federico Facchin, MD: From the * Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, University of Trieste, Italy
Luigi Troisi, MD, PhD: † Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury, United Kingdom.
Giovanni Papa, MD, PhD: From the * Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, University of Trieste, Italy
Zoran Marij Arnez, MD, PhD: From the * Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, University of Trieste, Italy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000001873
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 8
p. e1873

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Summary:. Preoperative blepharoplasty markings might be challenging, especially for young surgeons. It takes experience to carefully evaluate the amount of skin excess that can be safely removed. In the current study, we explored the use of microsurgical vascular clamps as a novel and useful tool in the preoperative upper blepharoplasty markings; they made it possible to directly visualize the amount of skin to be removed, facilitating the surgeon (especially the young surgeon) preoperative markings process. In our series, 30 patients underwent upper blepharoplasty with preoperative application of microvascular clamps with satisfactory results.

Published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open

ISSN: 2169-7574 (Online)
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Surgery
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