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Dr David Sparks

Academic Title-Associate Lecturer
PA-Southside Clinical Unit
d.sparks@uq.edu.au

Publications

Journal Articles (14)
Conference Paper (1)

Journal Articles

Sparks, David S., Savi, Flavia M., Dlaska, Constantin E., Saifzadeh, Siamak, Brierly, Gary, Ren, Edward, Cipitria, Amaia, Reichert, Johannes C., Wille, Marie-Luise, Schuetz, Michael A., Ward, Nicola, Wagels, Michael and Hutmacher, Dietmar W. (2023). Convergence of scaffold-guided bone regeneration principles and microvascular tissue transfer surgery. Science Advances, 9 (18) eadd6071, eadd6071. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add6071
Sparks, David S., Wiper, Jay, Lloyd, Thomas, Wille, Marie-Luise, Sehu, Marjoree, Savi, Flavia M., Ward, Nicola, Hutmacher, Dietmar W. and Wagels, Michael (2023). Protocol for the BONE-RECON trial: a single-arm feasibility trial for critical sized lower limb BONE defect RECONstruction using the mPCL-TCP scaffold system with autologous vascularised corticoperiosteal tissue transfer. BMJ Open, 13 (5) e056440, 1-8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056440
Castrisos, George, Matheus, Isabel Gonzalez, Sparks, David, Lowe, Martin, Ward, Nicola, Sehu, Marjoree, Wille, Marie-Luise, Phua, Yun, Savi, Flavia Medeiros, Hutmacher, Dietmar and Wagels, Michael (2022). Regenerative matching axial vascularisation of absorbable 3D printed scaffold for large bone defects: a first in human series. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 75 (7), 2108-2118. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2022.02.057
Sparks, David S., Taylor, G. Ian, Gascoigne, Adam, Corlett, Russell J. and Ashton, Mark W. (2020). The quadriceps Femoris allograft as an extension of the Angiosome concept: a cadaveric-based anatomical feasibility study. Microsurgery, 40 (2) micr.30479, 189-199. doi: 10.1002/micr.30479
Sparks, David S., Savi, Flavia Medeiros, Saifzadeh, Siamak, Schuetz, Michael A., Wagels, Michael and Hutmacher, Dietmar W. (2020). Convergence of scaffold-guided bone reconstruction and surgical vascularization strategies—a quest for regenerative matching axial vascularization. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 7 448, 448. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00448
Sparks, David S., Saifzadeh, Siamak, Savi, Flavia Medeiros, Dlaska, Constantin E., Berner, Arne, Henkel, Jan, Reichert, Johannes C., Wullschleger, Martin, Ren, Jiongyu, Cipitria, Amaia, McGovern, Jacqui A., Steck, Roland, Wagels, Michael, Woodruff, Maria Ann, Schuetz, Michael A. and Hutmacher, Dietmar W. (2020). A preclinical large-animal model for the assessment of critical-size load-bearing bone defect reconstruction. Nature Protocols, 15 (3), 877-924. doi: 10.1038/s41596-019-0271-2
Read, Tavis, Lonne, Michael, Sparks, David S., David, Michael, Wagels, Michael, Schaider, Helmut, Soyer, H. Peter and Smithers, B. Mark (2019). A systematic review and meta-analysis of locoregional treatments for in-transit melanoma. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 119 (7) jso.25686, 887-896. doi: 10.1002/jso.25400
Lonne, Michael, Sparks, David S., Stephan, Carl, Wagels, Michael and Berger, Anthony (2018). Clinical examination of the extensor pollicis brevis: anatomical study and description of a novel clinical sign. The Journal of Hand Surgery Asian-Pacific Volume, 23 (3), 330-335. doi: 10.1142/S2424835518500315
Sparks, David S., Wagels, Michael and Taylor, G. Ian (2018). Bone reconstruction: a history of vascularized bone transfer. Microsurgery, 38 (1), 7-13. doi: 10.1002/micr.30260
Sparks, David S., Myers, Harley and Grinsell, Damien (2017). Single-stage reconstruction of combined hypopharyngeal and anterior neck skin defects with the dual-paddle anterolateral thigh flap. European Journal of Plastic Surgery, 41 (3), 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s00238-017-1366-z
Sparks, David S., Read, Tavis, Lonne, Michael, Barbour, Andrew P., Wagels, Michael, Bayley, Gerard J. and Smithers, B. Mark (2017). Primary cutaneous melanoma of the scalp: Patterns of recurrence. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 115 (4), 449-454. doi: 10.1002/jso.24535
Sparks, David S., Saleh, Daniel B., Rozen, Warren M., Hutmacher, Dietmar W., Schuetz, Michael A. and Wagels, Michael (2017). Vascularised bone transfer: history, blood supply and contemporary problems. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 70 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2016.07.012
Sparks, David S., Fraser-Kirk, Grant and Belt, Paul (2016). Spontaneous myospasms of the pectoralis major flap after myotomy and extended denervation: not so cut and dry. Anz Journal of Surgery, 86 (1-2), 103-103. doi: 10.1111/ans.13312
Sparks, David S., Morris, Bradley, Xu, Wen, Fulton, Jessica, Atkinson, Victoria, Meade, Brian and Lutton, Nicholas (2015). Cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis secondary to mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix. International Surgery, 100 (1), 21-28. doi: 10.9738/INTSURG-D-14-00089.1

Conference Paper

Taylor, G. Ian, Sparks, David S., Gascoigne, Adam C., Corlett, Russell J. and Ashton, Mark W. (2017). Angiosome-based allografts: vascularized composite allotransplantation for tailored subunit reconstruction with Volkmann ischemic contracture as a case in point. 21st Meeting of the Federation-of-the-European-Societies-for-Surgery-of-the-Hand (FESSH), Santander, Spain, 22 - 25 June 2016. Philadelphia, PA, United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000003360
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