ISSN 0970-0358 eISSN 1998-376X

Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery

Official Publication of Association of Plastic Surgeons of India

Editor-In-Chief Dharanipriya Arikrishnan Subramania Iyer Department of Plastic Surgery Department of Plastic Surgery, Dinesh Kadam Madras Medical College , Chennai, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Plastic and Reconstruc- India Kochi, Kerala, India tive Surgery, Harsh R. Shah Gautham Biswas A J Institute of Medical Sciences and A J Dept of Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital, Mangalore, India Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, India Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India Samir M. Kumta Associate Editors (alphabetical) Business Editor Department of Plastic Surgery, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Adhish Basu Shailesh Ranade Mumbai, India Department of Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery, Srikant R. Narayana Health, Kolkata, India P D Hinduja National Hospital, Department of Plastic Surgery, Atul Parashar ­Mumbai, India Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences Department of Plastic Surgery, (NIMS), Hyderabad, India Post Graduate Institute of Medical Advisory Board Jaganmohan Janardhan Education & Research, Chandigarh, Department of Plastic and Faciomaxil- India Mukund Jagannathan lary Surgery, Madras Medical College, Hari Venkatramani Department of Plastic Surgery, Chennai, India Sr. Consultant, Dept of Plastic Surgery, LTMG Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India Satish H.V. The Ganga Medical Centre & Hosp Pvt Surajit Bhattacharya Department of Plastic Surgery, Ltd., Coimbatore, India Department of Plastic Surgery, Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysuru, India Maneesh Singhal Sahara Hospital, Lucknow, India Alok Sharma Head, Dept of Burns & Plastic Surgery, Mukund Thatte Department of Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Plastic Surgery, DY Patil Medical College, Pune, India New Delhi, India Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, India Vinay Kant Shankhdhar Nikhil Panse R. B. Ahuja Department of Plastic Surgery, Tata Department of Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery, Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha Na- BJ Government Medical College and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, tional Institute, Mumbai, India Sassoon Hospital, Pune, India India Satish Bhat Sanjay Mahendru Sasanka Shekhar Chatterjee Linea Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Associate Director, Plastic, Aesthetic Former Professor, Institute of Post Mangalore, India and Reconstructive Surgery Graduate Medical Education and Pawan Agarwal Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgram, Delhi Research, Kolkata, India NSCB Government Medical College, NCR, India Ramesh Kumar Sharma Jabalpur, India Shivaram Bharatwaj Department of Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India Apollo Hospitals Chennai, Perambur, Karoon Agarwal Chennai, India Department of Plastic Surgery, National Heart Institute, Associate Editors (Registrars/Residents) New Delhi, India S. Raja Sabapathy Shivangi Saha Department of Plastic Surgery, Department of Burns and Plastic Ganga Medical Centre and Hospitals, Surgery Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi , India ISSN 0970-0358 eISSN 1998-376X 

International Advisory Board David J. David L. Scott Levin Women’s and Children Hospital, Royal Division of Plastic Surgery, Graeme Southwick Adelaide Hospital, Australia University of Pennsylvania Perelman Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery, Kulwant S. Bhangoo School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Australia Mercy Hospital Cazenovia, New York, United States Andrew Burd United States Joon Pio Hong Department of Burns and Plastic Ahmad Sukari Halim Department of Plastic and Reconstruc- ­Surgery, Nottingham University Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), tive Surgery, ­Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom Malaysia Asan Medical Center University of David Elliot Ulsan Collage of Medicine, Seoul, Spire Wellesley Hospital, Essex, Republic of Korea United Kingdom

Association of Plastic Surgeons of India: Executive Committee

President Editor Trustees

Rakesh Kumar Khazanchi, New Delhi, Dinesh Kadam, Mangalore, India Chairman India Executive Members V. Bhattacharya, Varanasi, India Vice President Nilesh Satbhai, Mumbai, India Executive Trustee Ravi Kumar Mahajan, Amritsar, India Sunil Gaba, Chandigarh, India Nikhil Panse, Pune, India R. B. Ahuja, New Delhi, India Hon. Secretary Selva Seetharaman. S, Chennai, India Bibhuti Bhusan Nayak, Cuttack, India Members Vijay Kumar, Lucknow, India Sundeep Vijayraghavan, Kochi, India Ankur Bhatnagarh, Lucknow, India Mukund Thatte, Mumbai, India Treasurer Mohit Sharma, Kochi, India D. Mukunda Reddy, Hyderabad, India Durga Karki, New Delhi, India Ramesh Kumar Sharma, Chandigarh, Sameek Bhattacharya, New Delhi, India India

Immediate Past President

Amresh Baliarsing, Mumbai, India

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