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PLASTIC SURGERY
Plastic Surgery
Volume 1
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Second Edition

By
Stephen Mathes, MD, Professor of Surgery; Head, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Description
Volume 1 of the most definitive text in plastic surgery knowledge covers GENERAL PRINCIPLES. Inside, you'll find up-to-the-minute coverage of alloplastic implants pharmacological and mechanical management of wounds principles of endoscopic surgery tissue engineering fetal surgery telemedicine and important practice management topics such as liability issues and photography in plastic surgery. Full-color photographs throughout volumes one, two and three enable you to better visualize key concepts, procedures, and outcomes!

Audience
Plastic Surgeons

Contents


Volume I: General Principles


1. Introduction to Plastic Surgery
2. Historical Perspectives
3. Outcomes Research: The Path to Evidence-Based Decisions in Plastic Surgery
4. Genetics
5. Psychological Aspects of Plastic Surgery
6. Ethics in Plastic Surgery
7. Liability Issues in Plastic Surgery: A Legal Perspective
8. Liability Issues in Plastic Surgery: An Insurance Perspective
9. Photography in Plastic Surgery
10. Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery
11. Wound Healing: Repair Biology and Wound/Scar Treatment
12. Scar Revision
13. Transplantation in Plastic Surgery
14. Skin Grafts
15. Vascular Territories
16. Flap Classification and Applications
17. Flap Physiology
18. Principles and Techniques of Microvascular Surgery
19. Principles of Tissue Expansion
20. Repair and Grafting of Dermis, Fat, and Fascia
21. Repair and Grafting of Tendon
22. Repair and Grafting of Skeletal Muscle
23. Repair and Grafting of Cartilage and Perichondrium
24. Repair and Grafting of Bone
25. Repair and Grafting of Peripheral Nerve
26. Alloplastic Implants
27. Prostheses in Plastic Surgery
28. Exfoliative Disorders
29. Thermal and Electrical Injuries
30. Radiation Injury
31. Cold Injury
32. Pharmacologic and Mechanical Management of Wounds
33. Principles of Closure and Complex Wounds
34. Principles of Endoscopic Surgery
35. Principles of Cancer Management
36. Prenatal Detection of Fetal Anomalies
37. Surgical Horizons: Tissue Engineering
38. Surgical Horizons: Fetal Surgery
39. Surgical Horizons: Telemedicine
40. Robotics in Plastic Surgery

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 1328 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-8812-1
ISBN-10: 0-7216-8812-8
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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