Practical Plastic Surgery

Publisher: Landes Bioscience, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 668
Publication Date: 2007-08-30
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ISBN / ASIN: 1570596964

The purpose of Practical Plastic Surgery is to provide a guide to plastic surgery as it is practiced in academic medical centers. As such, it is written with the resident and fellow in mind. It is the intention that this book be useful to general surgeons and other healthcare providers. Many of the chapters, such as Basic Concepts in Wound Repair and Dressings provide information relevant to all surgical specialties.

The book contains over a hundred chapters organized into eight sections that cover the breadth of plastic surgery, starting with General Principles, The Problematic Wound and Integument. The next five sections address the principle disciplines, and include Head and Neck, Trunk and Lower Extremity, Craniofacial Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery, concluding with Hand and Upper Extremity. The book concludes with two large appendices and a comprehensive index. Appendix I lists most of the commonly used flaps and their harvest and has many illustrations of these flaps. Appendix II is comprised of illustrations and the names of the common surgical instruments used by most plastic surgeons.