| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Surgery, Plastic.
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Plastic Surgery Procedures -- methods
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Surgery, Plastic
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marré, Diego, editor
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| LC no. |
2018008885 |
| ISBN |
9783132059214 |
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3132059218 |
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