Handbook of plastic surgery
By: edited by Steven E. Greer ... [et al.].
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 771
Description: Elucidates surgical approaches for a range of aesthetic procedures, from liposuction to hair restoration to abdominoplasty; treatment of skin and soft tissue, from hypertrophic scars to malignant melanoma; the head and neck, including tumor excision, orbital surgery, and complex facial reconstruction; repair of cleft lip and other conditions requiring pediatric plastic surgery; microvascular surgery and pedicled flap, free flap, and peripheral nerve repair; hand injuries, infections, arthritis, and congenital anomalies; acute lower abdominal trauma, and chronic wounds of the lower extremity; lymphedema, thoracic and abdominal wall reconstruction, and pressure ulcers; and breast neoplasia, breast cancer, and post-mastectomy breast reconstruction.