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Gus McGroutherArdeshir Bayat
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,Wythenshawe Hospital,
Southmoor Road,Manchester M23 9LT,
UK
ª 2006 British Association ofPlastic,Reconstructive and AestheticSurgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.bjps.2006.04.026
Erratum to ‘‘Is there increased risk of localand in-transit recurrence following sentinellymph node biopsy?’’ [Journal of Plastic,Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery 59 (2006)487e493]
The authors would like to report an error in thedata presented in Table 1 in the above publication.The reported mean Breslow thickness in the CastleHill Hospital group should read 2.78 mm, not
DOI of related article: 10.1016/j.bjps.2005.12.002.
1474 Short Reports and Correspondence
A laser pointer guide to take accurateintraoperative photographs
It is often very hard to set up an ideal position fortaking intraoperative photographs, especially dur-ing a cooperating surgery where many surgeons areat work. When the surgical site covers a wide area,a sufficient enough distance between the cameraand the subject is essential to encompass thewhole region, but this is not always feasible. Weused to raise a camera with both hands high abovethe patient lying on the operating table, and thentake photographs, aiming at the surgical site byintuition, but we could rarely capture the area ofinterest within the frame in the first attempt. Toovercome this, we use a laser pointer as a guide toaim the camera accurately. We fix a laser pointerto an autofocus digital camera with an adhesivetape, just adjacent to the shutter button (Fig. 1).Then, adjust the aim of the laser pointer to thecentre of the picture’s frame, and hold the cameraabove an object in the former manner as wementioned, and aim it with the laser pointer,then press the shutter (Fig. 2).
Figure 1
Ryutaro NishioDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Kasumigaura Medical Center,2-7-14 Shimotakatsu,
Tsuchiura,Ibaraki 300-0812,
JapanE-mail address: [email protected]
ª 2006 The British Association of Plastic Surgeons. Published byElsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.bjps.2006.05.009
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