Essential tissue healing of the face and neck
By: David B. Hom, ... [et al.].
Publisher: People's Medical Pub. House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Shelton, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781607950073
Subjects: Cicatrisation; Chirurgie; Lésions traumatiques de la face; Wound Healing; Wound healing; Postoperative Complications; Facial Injuries; Postoperative complications; Face; Cicatrices; Neck Injuries; Cou; Traumatismes du cou; Facial injuries; Neck injuries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section One. Salient healing features of specific tissues of the face and neck; title: ch.1. Wound healing of skin; title: ch. 2. Facial bones; title: ch. 3. Craniofacial cartilage wound healing : implications for facial surgeons; title: ch. 4. Peripheral nerve; title: ch. 5. Salient healing features of muscles of the face & neck; title: ch. 6. Salient features of the oral mucosa; title: ch. 7. Wound healing of the larynx; title: ch. 8. Wound healing in the subglottis & trachea; title: ch. 9. Cervical esophagus; title: ch. 10. Salient healing features of the tympanic membrane; title: ch. 11. Sinonasal mucosal wound healing : implications for contemporary rhinologic surgery.; title: Section Two. Clinical problems and issues of healing tissues; title: ch. 12. Burned facial skin; title: ch. 13. Keloids and hypertrophic scarring; title: ch. 14. Laser resurfaced facial skin : clinical problems & issues of healing tissues : pearls and pitfalls; title: ch. 15. Irradiated skin and its postsurgical management; title: ch. 16. Irradiated soft tissue wounds; title: ch. 17. Nonunion of the mandible and the irradiated mandible; title: ch. 18. Irradiated temporal bone; title: ch. 19. Cranial suture biology and craniosynostosis; title: ch. 20. Vocal fold scar; title: ch. 21. Clinical considerations of wound healing in the subglottis and trachea; title: ch. 22. The facial nerve after Injury.; title: Section Three. Therapeutic Options; title: ch. 23. General approach to a poorly healing problem wound : practical and clinical overview; title: ch. 24. Nutrition and wound healing; title: ch. 25. Controlling Infection; title: ch. 26. Wound debridement; title: ch. 27. Hyperbaric oxygen and wound healing in the head & neck; title: ch. 28. Blood products in wound healing; title: ch. 29. Growth factors; title: modulators of wound healing; title: ch. 30. Vacuum assisted devices for difficult wounds of the face & neck; title: ch. 31. Choice of wound dressings and ointments; title: ch. 32. Adipose tissue in stem cell biology.