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Patient Information Articles 

Abdominoplasty (a.k.a Tummy Tuck) Is it for you?

DIEP flap breast reconstruction - Why the hype and how to find a DIEP flap surgeon

Microsurgical breast reconstruction with perforator flaps

Scientific Articles

Pisano SM, Ledoux PR, Nastala CL. Breast Reconstruction in Private Practice. Seminars in Plastic Surgery, A New Decade in Breast Reconstruction. 18(2), 2004 May. This article documents the success our reconstructive surgery practice has had with microsurgical breast reconstruction (particularly the DIEP flap procedure) in a private practice setting.

Chrysopoulo MT, Pisano S, Ledoux PR, Nastala CL. Improving the efficiency of the free TRAM. Plastic Surgical Forum. XXIII:423-424;2000 Oct.

Chrysopoulo MT, Greenberg JA, Kleinman WB. The hypothenar fat pad transposition flap: a modified surgical technique. Techniques in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery. 10(3):150-6, 2006 Sep.

Leong K, Nastala CL, Wang PT. Cosmetic aspects of cranial reconstruction. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 13(4):491-503, vi, 2002 Oct.

Chrysopoulo MT, McGrouther DA, Jeschke MG. Kaufman BR. Cleland's ligaments: an anatomic study. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 109(2):566-72; discussion 573-5, 2002 Feb.

Chrysopoulo MT, Barrow RE, Muller M. Rubin S, Barrow LN, Herndon DN. Chest radiographic appearances in severely burned adults. A comparison of early radiographic and extravascular lung thermal volume changes. Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation. 22(2):104-10, 2001 Mar-Apr.

Jeschke MG, Barrow RE, Hawkins HK, Chrysopoulo MT, Perez-Polo JR, Herndon DN. Effect of multiple gene transfers of insulinlike growth factor I complementary DNA gene constructs in rats after thermal injury. Archives of Surgery. 134(10):1137-41, 1999 Oct.

Jeschke MG, Chrysopoulo MT, Herndon DN, Wolf SE. Increased expression of insulin-like growth factor-I in serum and liver after recombinant human growth hormone administration in thermally injured rats. Journal of Surgical Research. 85(1):171-7, 1999 Jul.

Chrysopoulo MT, Jeschke MG, Ramirez RJ, Barrow RE, Herndon DN. Growth hormone attenuates tumor necrosis factor alpha in burned children. Archives of Surgery. 134(3):283-6, 1999 Mar.

Chrysopoulo MT, Jeschke MG, Dziewulski P, Barrow RE, Herndon DN. Acute renal dysfunction in severely burned adults. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care. 46(1):141-4, 1999 Jan.

Chrysopoulo MT, Mancoll JS, McGrouther MD PhD. D. Ralph Millard, MD Investigator Award: Cleland's ligaments: an anatomical study. Plastic Surgical Forum.  XXI:92-95;1998 Oct.

Matthes G, Zabel DD, Nastala CL, Shestak KC. Endometrioma of the abdominal wall following combined abdominoplasty and hysterectomy: case report and review of the literature. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 40(6):672-5, 1998 Jun.

Szymula von Richter TP, Chrysopoulo MT, Eaves FF, Nahai F, Bostwick J III. From (2D)Endoscopic Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery to (3D) Endoscopic Reconstructive Microsurgery. 46th National Congress of the Italian Society for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Venice, 1997.

Book Chapters

Miller AR, Chew HK, Zellers R, Nastala CL, Sharkey F. Breast Sarcoma. In Cancer Therapy 2002

Chrysopoulo MT, Desvigne L. The classification of flaps. eMedicine.com: Plastic Surgery [serial online]. 2001. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/topic241.htm

Nastala CL. Perineal Reconstruction. eMedicine.com: Plastic Surgery [serial online]. 2001. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/plastic/topic448.htm

Szymula von Richter TP, Eaves FF, Nahai F, Bostwick J III, Chrysopoulo MT, Staffenberg D, Williams KJ, Baumeister RGH, von Gregory HC, Porrozzi L. Experimental Basis for Endoscopic Tissue Harvest. In: Frey M (ed): Update in Plastic Surgery - Endoscopy and Microsurgery. Springer,
Wien-New York, 2000

Nastala CL, Shestak KC. Breast Reconstruction. In Plastic Surgical Secrets, Weinzweig, J. ed., Hanley and Belfus, Philadelphia, 254-258, 1999

Szymula von Richter TP, Chrysopoulo MT, Eaves FF, Nahai F, Bostwick J III, Williams KJ, Staffenberg D, Porrozzi L. The Endoscopic Vascularized Calvarium Bone Flap - Free with (2D/3D) Endoscopic Microvascular Reconstruction. In: Diner PA (ed): Cranial and Facial Bone Distraction Processes. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, 1998

Nastala CL, McCraw JB, McMellin A. Vaginal Reconstruction using the Gracilis Myocutaneous Flap. In Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery of the External Genitalia, Gary Alter, ed. W.B.Saunders, Co. 1998