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The Allentown Connection-A Tribute for Lew Jae-duk, the "Father of Korean Plastic Surgery"

  • Geoffrey G. Hallock;Joon Pio Hong
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2023
  • In retrospect, the irony of this story began with the first meeting of these co-authors-in of all places, Coimbatore, India, in 2008, at the 12th International Perforator Flap Course. Here the junior author [hereafter "jp"] demonstrated his unparalleled skills in networking, and soon thereafter journeyed some 11,073 km to Allentown, U.S. to peruse the operating room and clinics of the senior author [sic. ggh] in action. Within 2 years jp orchestrated the presentation of the 14th International Perforator Flap Course, so ggh with great anticipation flew only 6,830 miles to reach Seoul, Korea for his first time. But four years more elapsed before ggh returned again to Korea to be a visiting professor, all the while not quite sure why any Korean would want anything from a country doctor who resided in nowheresville Allentown, Pennsylvania. Yet, an extraordinary fact then was to be unveiled, about which ggh was totally ignorant. The pioneer of plastic surgery in Korea, the first Korean to have completed an accredited plastic surgery fellowship, by coincidence had accomplished all this in . . . . . Allentown. The collegial relationship that evolved between these co-authors, who met by chance, indeed had a precedent coincidence! Was this "by chance" alone or predestination? Amazingly, in a way similar, the origin of plastic surgery itself in Korea also had Allentown connections. As a tribute to Lew Jae-duk, this important story must be here told, so let us now retrace his past in Allentown so we can find how the future was to be not so far away.

The Secondary Island Flap Using Omental Vascular Carrier in Rats (백서의 대망을 혈관경으로 이식하여 생성시킨 이차적 도서형 피판)

  • Lew, Dae-Hyun;Tark, Kwan-Chul;Lew, Jae-Duk
    • Archives of Reconstructive Microsurgery
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 1996
  • The omental pedicle based on right gastroepiploic vessels is designed new experimental model for prefabrication(revasculirization) of skin flaps in rats. A $2.5{\times}4cm$ pack of omentum with right gastroepiploic vessels was transferred under a bipediceld panniculocutaneous flap which is $2.5{\times}8cm$ size. At day 7, all four margin was divided and the flap was rasied as an secondary island flap connected only by its vascular pedicle, then the composite flap sutured back in place. The flap perfusion was examined by dermofluorometry and flap survival area was measured at day 12. The Secondary island flap demonstrated a dye fluorescence index(DFI%) of $31.38{\pm}12.33$ and survival rate $80.47{\pm}9.61$ The survival rate was increased when DFI% and contact surface between vascular carrier and skin flap was increased. An india ink injection and histologic examination provided visual evidence of revasculization. The omental pedicle is a promising and safe model for revasculirization of other tissues.

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Immediate Reconstruction of Defects Developed After Treatment of Head and Neck Tumors Using Cutaneous and Composite Flaps (두경부종양 치료 후 발생한 결손의 피판 및 복합조직이식을 이용한 재건)

  • Tark, Kwan-Chul;Lee, Young-Ho;Lew, Jae-Duk
    • Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.35-61
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    • 1985
  • The surgical treatment of advanced carcinomas and some benign tumors having clinically malignant behaviors of the head and neck region often require extensive resection, necessitating large flaps for reconstruction. Since the original upper arm flap was described by Tagliacozzi in 1597, a variety of technique such as random pattern local flap, axial flap, distant flap, scalping flap, myocutaneous flap, free flap etc. have been proposed for reconstruction of head, face and neck defects. Reconstruction of the facial defects usually require the use of distant tissue. Traditionally, nasal reconstruction has been carried out with a variety of forehead flaps. In recent years, there has been more acceptance of immediate repairs following the removal of these tumors. As a result, patients are more willing to undergo these extensive resections to improve their chances of cure, with the reasonable expectation that an immediate reconstruction will provide an adequate cosmetic result. Authors experienced 13 cases of head and neck tumor during last three and half years that required wide excision and immediate reconstruction with various flaps, not with primary closure or simple skin graft. We present our experience with varied flaps for reconstruction after wide resection of head and neck tumors 3 cases of defect of dorsum of nose or medial canthus with island forehead flaps, lower eyelid defect with cheek flap, cheek defect with Limberg flap, orbital floor defect with Temporalis muscle flap, lateral neck defects with Pectoralis major myocutaneous flap or Latissimus dorsi myocutaneous free flap, subtotal nose defect with scalping flap, wide forehead defect with Dorsalis pedis free flap and 3 cases of mandibular defect or mandibular defect combined with lower lip defect were reconstructed with free vascularized iliac bone graft or free vascularized iliac bone graft concomitantly combined with free groin flap pedicled on deep circumflex iliac vessels We obtained satisfactory results coincided wi th goal of treatment of head and neck tumors, MAXIMAL CURE RATE with MINIMAL MORBIDITY, OPTIMAL FUNCTION, and an APPEARANCE as close to normal as possible.

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Electron Microscopic Studies of Human Keloid and Hypertrophic Scars (Keloid와 Hypertrophic Scar ( 비후성반흔 )의 형태학적 관찰)

  • Kim, Chung-Soak;Lew, Jae-Duk
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 1973
  • Introduction. The human cutaneous scars manifest themselves many ways in different types according to the factors such as the age, sex, race of the patient as well as the location,. kind and heal ing process of the wound. Among the scars it is quiet difficult to verify the clinical course of the hypertrophic or keloidal scars from the true keloids. However, clinical observations indicate that stress, either mechanical or in the forms of chronic infections, can induce a functional change in the fibroblasts causing an excessive production of collagenous matrix. In this study, we preliminary attempt to justify any difference of the cellular structure between keloids and hypertrophic scars by using electron microscope. Material and Methods. A total of 23 cases: 2 scars, 2 hypertrophic scars and 19 keloids are examined. Immediately, the biopsy tissue was fixed in 10% neutral formalin and 4% glutaraldehyde solution in phosphate buffer for 4 hours, post fixed in 1 % osmium tetraoxide for two hours, dehydrated with graded alcohol, and embedded in Epon 812. Thick sections were stained with hematoxylin eosin, periodic acid-Schiff(PAS) and Van Gieson stain. Thin sections were cut and uranyle acetate, lead citratestain and examined with the electron microscope. Result. The morphologic features of keloid showed thick, homogenously eosinophilic bands of collagen and numberous large active fibroblasts. The hypertrophic scar and soft scar are more cellular than keloid and composed thinner collagenous fiber. For this paper in the etiology of keloids can not as be defined, but and interesting keloidal tissue fibroblast showed irregular nucleus with irregular shape dense bodies and fibril materials contained in to the cytoplasm.

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