Jenny Carvajal

University of Antioquia | UdeA · Departamento de Educación Médica

The incidence of keloids in individuals with skin of color is as high as 16%. Intralesional steroid injection is recommended as a first-line treatment, even though the outcomes are often suboptimal. Histologically, the keloid epidermal layer is thicker than in normal skin, and the vascular density is higher in the marginal area at subepidermal leve...

Background Male tuberous breast is an exceedingly rare condition that not fit properly into the majority of existing classifications of gynecomastia. This deformity has been categorized by Cordova and Moschella as gynecomastia grade III; however, they do not make any reference to the isolated tuberous deformity of the nipple-areola complex (NAC).Co...

Background Capsular contracture (CC) has remained an unresolved issue throughout history. Strong evidence focuses on bacterial biofilm as its main source. A literature review revealed that more than 90% of bacteria found in capsules and implants removed from patients with Baker grade III-IV CC belong to the resident skin microbiome (S. epidermidis,...

Goals/Purpose: Lower face laxity is an early signs of aging, caused by the relaxation of the SMAS among others. Mendelson highlights that collagen and elastin fibers of the SMAS become degraded over time. Although collagen contraction with heat is not new, no modality of non-ablative skin resurfacing has been designed to address SMAS collagen. It...

Conventional film-screen mammography is a highly effective tool for the early diagnosis of breast cancer. Although the mammographic spectrum of fat necrosis has been well documented, and many postsurgical findings mimic carcinoma in clinical examination or imaging studies, the evolution of the mammographic appearance has not previously been reporte...

The most common aesthetic defects after rhinoplasty are small dorsal irregularities observed mainly in patients with thin dorsal nasal skin. Many techniques have been used in attempts to prevent perceptible irregularities and sharp edges of bone and cartilage in these patients. Adipose tissue transplantation has been used widely in aesthetic surger...

Re-establishing nasal tip projection is one of the main objectives in secondary rhinoplasty. The columellar strut is used as a basic element for support and the septal cartilage graft as the first choice for reconstruction. Nevertheless, the septal cartilage is often missing in this category of patient because of previous surgery, obliging the surg...

Multiple techniques have been described to produce tip rotation in rhinoplasty, including the use of sutures, a technique popularized by several authors and shown to be predictable, controllable, and nondestructive. The authors describe a simple procedure for nasal tip rotation with a suture suspension technique through a closed method that allows...

The use of the periareolar incision in breast augmentation procedures results in inconspicuous scarring. However, this approach is problematic when treating a patient with a small nipple-areolar complex (NAC) diameter. We describe a simple procedure for breast augmentation in patients with a small NAC diameter that uses an alternative periareolar a...