Scars: Prevention, Correction, and Reduction, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics

Skin- Histology and physiology of wound healing; Acne scars- prevention and management; Oculoplastic pearls- preventing cicatricial scars and ectropion in eyelid repair; Adjunctive procedures that follow skin cancer repair, improve results, and treat complications- i.e., how to use a Z plasty on a tethered scar, the use of GBLC to correct scar depression, the use of dermal fat grafts to improve surface contour, etc. Use of camouflaging makeup; Proper care of early wounds to optimize healing and prevent complications- i.e.- what do you do when there is avulsed skin, open wounds that must heal by secondary intention, loss of skin in darker pigmented patients, etc.; The role of intralesional/ intra-scar steroids in post op wound care management; Keloids: prevention and treatment; Dermabrasion; Non and less ablative lasers to improve and minimize superficial scars (IPL, erbium, YAG, etc); Topical therapies to improve scars- including vitamin E, Mederma, silicone; Burns

Product details

• Authors: Steven Mobley, Steven (The Surgical Specialty Center Mobley, Mobley Steven
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781455704439
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-0443-9
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 254 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Series: The Clinics: Surgery
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Plastic & reconstructive surgery, MEDICAL / Surgery / Cosmetic & Reconstructive, Plastic and reconstructive surgery