Lower Extremity Soft Tissue & Cutaneous Plastic Surgery

G Dock Dockery, Mary Elizabeth Crawford

• Publisher: Saunders Ltd.
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780702049514
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Since publication of the first edition, Lower Extremity Soft Tissue & Cutaneous Plastic Surgery has attracted wide acclaim for its superb illustrations, clear step-by-step approach, thoroughness and practicality. Progressing from basic information on instruments and principles of tissue handling through to complex techniques, no surgeon of the foot and ankle will want to be without this authoritative text which will aid in their recognition of conditions and provide a suitable method of treatment with the latest surgical techniques.

This second edition provides additional information regarding the current techniques of suturing, aseptic and sterile techniques, vascular anatomy, incisional and excisional procedures, cutaneous flaps and grafts as well as reconstructive and plastic surgical techniques. Four new chapters have been added along with numerous new photographs and illustrations. Emphasis is placed on plastic surgery techniques that are applicable on the foot, ankle and lower leg whenever possible.

• Over 1, 300 superb full color illustrations
• Practical step-by-step instructions of all the major techniques
• Suitable for all surgeons performing reconstructive or plastic surgery on the lower limb

• Four new chapters:
• • Cutaneous anatomy and its surgical implications
  • Aseptic techniques
  • Leg ulcermanagement
  • Dressings and postoperative care
• Text fully updated throughout with extra illustrations for maximum clarity

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Lower Extremity Soft Tissue & Cutaneous Plastic Surgery
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Preoperative patient evaluation
• Chapter 2 Cutaneous anatomy and its surgical implications
• Chapter 3 Vascular anatomy and its surgical implications
• Chapter 4 Surgical principles
• Chapter 5 Basic instruments and tissue handling
• Chapter 6 Anesthesia
• Chapter 7 Aseptic techniques
• Chapter 8 Hemostatic techniques
• Chapter 9 Suture materials and techniques
• Chapter 10 Wound-healing properties
• Chapter 11 Digital medical photography
• Chapter 12 Excisional techniques and procedures
• Chapter 13 Biopsy techniques
• Chapter 14 Flap classification and survival factors
• Chapter 15 V–Y- and Y–V-plasty
• Chapter 16 Z and W skin plasty
• Chapter 17 Advancement and rotational flaps
• Chapter 18 Transpositional flaps
• Chapter 19 Skin grafts
• Chapter 20 Autografts, allografts and xenografts in cutaneous surgery
• Chapter 21 Soft tissue considerations in partial-foot amputations
• Chapter 22 The role of microsurgical-free flaps in foot and ankle surgery
• Chapter 23 The use of local muscle flaps in foot and ankle reconstruction
• Chapter 24 Nail and periungual reconstruction
• Chapter 25 Digital procedures
• Chapter 26 Foot and ankle benign soft tissue masses
• Chapter 27 Surgical dressings
• Chapter 28 Scars
• Chapter 29 Negative pressure wound therapy in lower extremity reconstructiona
• Chapter 30 Surgical complications and their treatments
• Chapter 31 Leg ulcer managementa
• Chapter 32 Dressings and postoperative carea
• Index