Plastic and reconstructive surgery board review
By: Samuel Lin and John B. Hijjawi
Contributors: Hijjawi, John B.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Pearls of wisdom; Pearls of wisdom
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780071629744
Subjects: Plastic Surgery; Examinations, questions; Reconstructive Surgical Procedures; Examination Questions
Description: Maximize Your Plastic Surgery Board Exam Score!This powerful, results-oriented study guide delivers everything you need to improve knowledge, confidence, and recall. Featuring a rigorous quick-hit Q&A format consisting of short clinical questions with concise answers, this is truly your most effective weapon when preparing for plastic surgery in-service and board exams. The unique question and single-answer format of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Board Review, 2e eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the answers you need to know on exam day. Enhanced by 18 new chapters and covering all core competences found on the board exam, the book emphasizes distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential to exam success. This high-yield review is the perfect complement to larger texts and delivers an intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before the exam. 4000+ rapid-fire questions cover all the core competencies on the plastic surgery board exam 18 NEW CHAPTERS, including ones on liposuction, otoplasty, facial augmentation, head and neck reconstruction, and melanoma 108 illustrations, including new ones of important surgical techniques"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Craniofacial syndromes and craniosynostosis; Chapter 2. Congenital hand (include Poland Syndrome); Chapter 3. Wound healing Keloids; Chapter 4. Facelift; Chapter 5. Facial implants; Chapter 6. Tendon transfers; Chapter 7. Brachial plexus; Chapter 8. Hand replantation; Chapter 9. Rheumatoid hand; Chapter 10. Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Injury; Chapter 11. Ear; Chapter 12. Facial trauma; Chapter 13. Chemodenervation (Botox); Chapter 14. Hair removal/Hair transplantation; Chapter 15. Browlift; Chapter 16. Toe to hand; Chapter 17. Lower extremity reconstruction; Chapter 18. Fracture/dislocations; Chapter 19. Vascular malformations; Chapter 20. Upper extremity compression syndromes (median, ulnar, radial); Chapter 21. Hand Tumors; Chapter 22. Nerve injury repair; Chapter 23. Lasers; Chapter 24. Teeth; Chapter 25. Nail/nailbed injuries; Chapter 26. Breast reconstruction (expander-implant and nipple areolar recon); Chapter 27. Breast reconstruction (Latissimus and other autogenous recon. i.e. I-GAP); Chapter 28. Breast reconstruction (TRAM); Chapter 29. Mastopexy; Chapter 30. Breast reduction; Chapter 31. Flaps; Chapter 32. Dupuytren's; Chapter 33. Hand Anatomy/embryology; Chapter 34. Anesthesia; Chapter 35. Tendon lacerations; Chapter 36. Cleft lip/palate; Chapter 37. Orthognathic surgery; Chapter 38. Hand infections; Chapter 39. SLAC wrist/ perilunate dislocations; Chapter 40. Distraction osteogenesis; Chapter 41. Liposuction (safety/indications, UAL, PAL); Chapter 42. Parotid tumors (benign, malignant); Chapter 43. Trunk Reconstruction; Chapter 44. Breast augmentation.