Background Complex breast surgery, including immediate breast reconstruction and oncoplastic procedures, is increasingly performed to optimise oncologic and aesthetic outcomes. Postoperative wound ...

IT has been pointed out that the normal dry scab on a wound exposed to the air includes a superficial part of the dermis, and it was suggested that this is because the exposed dermal tissue is ...

IN the turbulent days of old, a Scotsman may have needed a sword to protect himself, his family and his belongings. Those days are gone and, nowadays, the wielding of knives usually ends in the death ...