Fundamental topics in plastic surgery [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Patient safety in plastic surgery -- Wound healing -- Wound management and pressure sores -- Negative pressure wound therapy -- Local anesthetics and common nerve blocks -- Soft tissue infections and antibiotics in plastic surgery -- Implants and biomaterials -- Principles of osteosynthesis -- Essentials of dermatology for plastic surgeons -- Laser therapy : principles and applications in skin diseases -- How to set up a research protocol in plastic surgery -- Basic surgical techniques, sutures, and wound closure -- Grafts : skin, fascia, nerve, tendon, cartilage, and bone -- Fat grafting -- Vascular anatomy of the skin and muscles -- Flaps -- Tissue expansion -- Burns -- Microsurgery -- Facial trauma -- Hand trauma.

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Given the wide-ranging nature of the literature one must study in plastic surgery training, a solid grounding in many fundamental principles and procedures is an absolute prerequisite to becoming a competent plastic surgeon. And yet, until now there has been no single source that collects these fundamental topics in one volume; rather, the information has had to be gleaned from the introductory chapters of multiple comprehensive textbooks. The present volume takes a new approach, and provides the trainee an opportunity to learn these fundamentals more efficiently and comprehensively through a.

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