Associate Professor
Plastic Surgery
Dr. Tahsin O. Acarturk, MD
Tahsin Acarturk is an expert in the field of Plastic Surgery. He has 1 awards "Young Plastic Surgeon Award". Tahsin Acarturk is a published physician. He has 43 papers published. The most current publication "Submental Artery Flap with Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in the Reconstruction of Oral Cancer." Tahsin Acarturk is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Submental Artery Flap with Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in the Reconstruction of Oral Cancer.
- Intraoral reconstruction with "thinned" peroneal artery perforator flaps: An alternative to classic donor areas in comorbid patients.
- Delay by Staged Elevation of Flaps and Importance of Inclusion of the Perforator Artery.
- "Maras Powder" a Form of Smokeless Tobacco as a Perioperative Risk Factor in Microsurgery.
- Versatility of the Perforator-Based Adipose, Adipofascial, and Fasciocutaneous Flaps in Reconstruction of Distal Leg and Foot Defects.
- Vascularized Osseous Flaps and Assessing Their Bipartate Perfusion Pattern via Intraoperative Fluorescence Angiography.
- How to kill a flap: munchausen syndrome - a silent trap for plastic surgeons.
- Neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin as an indicator of acute kidney injury and inflammation in burned children.
- Aesthetic Reconstruction of the Postburn Neck Contracture With a Preexpanded Anterolateral Thigh Free Flap.
- Free segmental vastus lateralis muscle flap for reconstruction of recalcitrant defects of the cleft hard palate.
- Periosteal ossification from the vascular pedicle of a free fibular flap.
- Femur-vastus intermedius-anterolateral thigh osteomyocutaneous composite chimeric free flap: a new free flap for the reconstruction of complex wounds.
- Banking of the DIEP flap: a "previously described new technique".
- Reconstruction of lower extremity close-range shotgun injuries with gracilis free flap: a report of two cases.
- Acquired partial lipodystrophy with C3 hypocomplementemia and antiphospholipid and anticardiolipin antibodies.
- Superior gluteal artery perforator flap in the reconstruction of pilonidal sinus.
- Treatment of large ischial ulcers communicating with the hip joint with proximal femoral resection and reconstruction with a combined vastus lateralis, vastus intermed...
- Excision and "transcutaneous" lift in patients with neurofibromatosis of the fronto-temporo-orbital and auricular regions.
- Lateral intercostal artery perforator-based reverse thoracic flap for antecubital reconstruction.
- Median artery arising from the radial artery: its significance during harvest of a radial forearm free flap.
- Bone healing response to an injectable calcium phosphate cement with enhanced radiopacity.
- Aesthetic and functional restoration using dorsal saddle shaped Medpor implant in secondary rhinoplasty.
- Preservation of the contralateral abdominal flap following harvest of unilateral deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap for staged bilateral breast reconstruc...
- Abdominal compartment syndrome: current problems and new strategies.
- Alveolar hydatid disease: imaging findings and surgical approach.
- Correction of saddle nose deformity in ectodermal dysplasia.
- Anti-TGF-beta2 antibody therapy inhibits postoperative resynostosis in craniosynostotic rabbits.
- The use of external skeletal fixation to facilitate the surgical release of wrist flexion and thumb web space contractures.
- Omental transposition flap for salvage of ventricular assist devices.
- Commercially available demineralized bone matrix compositions to regenerate calvarial critical-sized bone defects.
- Treatment of 'en coup de sabre' deformity with porous polyethylene implant.
- Noggin underexpression and runx-2 overexpression in a craniosynostosis rabbit model.
- Aberrant branch of the radial artery encountered during elevation of the radial forearm free flap.
- Correction of unilateral coronal synostosis leads to resolution of mandibular asymmetry in rabbits.
- Laparoscopically harvested omental flap for chest wall and intrathoracic reconstruction.
- Panniculectomy as an adjuvant to bariatric surgery.
- Reconstruction of difficult wounds with tissue-expanded free flaps.
- Rescue of coronal suture fusion using transforming growth factor-beta 3 (Tgf-beta 3) in rabbits with delayed-onset craniosynostosis.
- The transcervical incision for use in oral and maxillofacial surgical procedures.
- Posttraumatic epidermal inclusion cyst of the deep infratemporal fossa.
- Control of attachment, morphology, and proliferation of skeletal myoblasts on silanized glass.
- Muscle tissue engineering.
Procedures Preformed
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Excision of Malignant Skin Lesion
- Facial Reconstruction
- Nose Plastic Surgery (Rhinoplasty)
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Conditions Treated
- Localized Adiposity
- Skin Cancer
Doctors Specialties
- Plastic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Young Plastic Surgeon Award
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1336425354 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ACARTURK |
| First Name Of The Provider | TAHSIN |
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