Director of the Hurwitz Center for Plastic Surgery Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery

Doctor Dennis J. Hurwitz, MD is an expert in the field of Plastic Surgery. He graduated from University of Maryland School of Medicine. University of Maryland School of Medicine has a rank of 37 in research and a 52 in primary care He has 3 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Pittsburgh Magazine" and "Fellow (FACS)". Dennis Hurwitz is also published. He has 65 publications published. The lastest publication: "The effects of soft-tissue expansion on lip repair and midfacial growth in a rabbit cleft lip model.'

Publications

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• Brachioplasty.
• Abstract 8: body contouring in the muscular male.
• Quill barbed sutures in body contouring surgery: a 6-year comparison with running absorbable braided sutures.
• Enhanced recovery after body-contouring surgery: reducing surgical complication rates by optimizing nutrition.
• L-brachioplasty: an adaptable technique for moderate to severe excess skin and fat of the arms.
• Management of upper abdominal laxity after massive weight loss: reverse abdominoplasty and inframammary fold reconstruction.
• Potential impacts of nutritional deficiency of postbariatric patients on body contouring surgery.
• Nutritional deficiency of post-bariatric surgery body contouring patients: what every plastic surgeon should know.
• A clinical review of total body lift surgery.
• L brachioplasty correction of excess tissue of the upper arm, axilla, and lateral chest.
• Breast reconstruction with alloplastic implants.
• Biomechanical properties of the superficial fascial system.
• Postbariatric surgery breast reshaping: the spiral flap.
• The L brachioplasty: an innovative approach to correct excess tissue of the upper arm, axilla, and lateral chest.
• A classification of contour deformities after bariatric weight loss: the Pittsburgh Rating Scale.
• Medial thighplasty.
• Correcting the saddlebag deformity in the massive weight loss patient.
• Body contouring after massive weight loss.
• Breast reshaping after massive weight loss.
• Single-staged total body lift after massive weight loss.
• Gluteal thigh flap repair of chronic perineal wounds.
• The plantar digital web space island flap for reconstruction of the distal sole.
• Long-term effects of nasoalveolar molding on three-dimensional nasal shape in unilateral clefts.
• The disc dressing for local irrigation of experimental burn wounds.
• The sonic digitizer: a rapid and accurate method to assess the size of experimental flaps.
• Tobacco smoking: impairment of experimental flap survival.
• The microcirculatory pattern of the transverse-abdominal flap: a cross-sectional xerographic and CAT scanning study.
• The salutary effects of the bed on the survival of experimental flaps.
• Is experimental muscle flap temperature a reliable indicator of its viability?
• The distal gluteus maximus advancement musculocutaneous flap for coverage of trochanteric pressure sores.
• Surgical management of difficult wounds of the groin.
• Long-term results of vascularized cranial bone grafts.
• The expansive gluteus maximus flap.
• Thermal energy dissipation in blood vessel patency.
• Hemodynamic considerations in the treatment of arteriovenous malformations of the face and scalp.
• Presurgical orthopedics in the surgical management of unilateral cleft lip and palate.
• Application of glove designs in resurfacing the dorsum of the hand.
• Island gluteus maximus myocutaneous flap.
• The surgical anatomy of the scalp.
• Pharmacologic manipulation of postoperative labial wound contraction and midfacial growth in rabbits.
• A new approach for repair of oro-antral-nasal fistulae. The anteriorly based buccinator myomucosal island flap.
• Quantitative assessment of results of ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty with dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry: a preliminary report.
• Frontal bone advancement stability with or without microplate fixation: an experimental study in rabbits.
• A combined frontoorbital and occipital advancement technique for use in total calvarial reconstruction.
• Internal oblique muscle pedicle flap for coverage of a major soft tissue defect of the groin.
• Closure of chronic wounds of the perineal and sacral regions using the gluteal thigh flap.
• Complicated neck contracture treated with a pectoralis major myocutaneous flap.
• Extending the reach of island cutaneous flaps.
• The internal oblique muscle flap: an anatomic and clinical study.
• The sliding gluteus maximus myocutaneous flap: its relevance in ambulatory patients.
• The anatomic basis for the platysma skin flap.
• Laminated Marlex-methyl methacrylate prosthesis for massive chest wall resection.
• The gluteal thigh flap: a reliable, sensate flap for the closure of buttock and perineal wounds.
• Composite upper lip repair with V-Y advancement flaps.
• The buccinator myomucosal island pedicle flap: anatomic study and case report.
• Three-dimensional imaging of Poland's syndrome.
• Reducing eyelid retraction following subperiosteal face lift.
• Clinical applications of the subgaleal fascia.
• Computer-assisted anthropometry for outcome assessment of cleft lip.
• The effects of soft-tissue expansion on lip repair and midfacial growth in a rabbit cleft lip model.
• Reconstruction of radiation-induced chest wall lesions.
• Comparative clinical study of the sure-closure device with conventional wound closure techniques.
• Delayed closure of the hard palate leads to speech problems and deleterious maxillary growth.
• Body contouring of the arms and brachioplasty.

Schools

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• University Of Maryland School Of Medicine

• Yale New Haven Hospital

• Dartmouth Med Center

• University Of Pittsburgh

Procedures Preformed

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• Breast Reconstruction
• Destruction of Benign Skin Lesion

Doctors Specialties

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• General Surgery
• Plastic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• Pittsburgh Magazine
• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Yale-New Haven Hospital
• University of Maryland School of Medicine

Hospital

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• UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside

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