The authors have found that the principles of the mechanics of materials can provide plastic surgeons with some clues for a predictable, long-lasting good result in breast augmentation and augmentation-mastopexy. Future studies are needed to develop these concepts and evaluate how they might individually determine the mid- and long-term outcomes of augmented breasts.

Although not statistically significant because of the small sample size, our study might support the idea that both periosteal and corticoperiosteal flaps from the medial femoral condyle are effective, when associated with a bone graft, in the treatment of recalcitrant nonunions with small gaps. A further analysis of the results suggests, albeit no statistical significant, that structural and nonstructural bone grafts are both effective when associated with a vascularized periosteal or corticoperiosteal transfer from the medial femoral condyle.

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Therapeutic, IV.