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New clinical cases, enlarged photographs, new abstracts and algorithms, and more make the 4th Edition of Local Flaps in Facial Reconstruction your state-of-the-art resource for achieving optimal results for the full range of facial flap procedures. It offers detailed visual guidance and unmatched expertise from prominent surgeons in facial plastic surgery, ophthalmology, and dermatology, reflecting the multi-specialty nature of this dynamic field. Full-color clinical photographs and line drawings, along with high-quality surgical video clips, capture the latest, most effective facial reconstruction practices and methods.

• Clearly demonstrates practical and effective methods of reconstruction of skin defects in a variety of sizes, configurations, and locations on the head and neck
• Covers the basic concepts of flap physiology, design, and mechanics of flap transfer, including multiple clinical examples for each flap; the second section describes the use of local flaps in reconstruction of individual facial structures including the auricles, lips, eyelids, cheeks, forehead, and nose
• Contains many new clinical cases, new abstracts preceding each chapter, new algorithms for selecting the preferred local flap, an updated and expanded bibliography, newer approaches to facial reconstruction, and enlarged photographs to better view flap design, planes of dissection, and methods of flap transfer
• Offers new, more complex clinical cases of nasal reconstruction, as well as updated coverage of new wound closure techniques and materials
• Includes an outstanding video library demonstrating the design, dissection, and transfer of the majority of local flaps and grafts currently in use today, accompanied by expert commentary
• Features more than 2,300 superb illustrations and photographs of rotation flaps, transposition flaps, advancement flaps, bilobe flaps, melolabial flaps, paramedian forehead flaps, rhombic flaps, and mucosal flaps

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

  Inhalt

  SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS

  1. Anatomy of Facial Skin and Scalp
  2. Skin Flap Physiology
  3. Biomechanics of Skin Flaps
  4. Wound Closure Techniques
  5. Preparation of the Patient
  6. Flap Classification and Design
  7. Rotation Flaps
  8. Transposition Flaps
  9. Advancement Flaps
  10. Bilobe Flaps
  11. Rhombic Flaps
  12. Melolabial Flaps
  13. Paramedian Forehead Flaps
  14. Z: Plasty
  15. Skin and Composite Grafts
  16. The Use of Skin Grafts with Local Flaps

  SECTION II: RECONSTRUCTION OF FACIAL STRUCTURES

  17. Reconstruction of the Eyelids
  18. Reconstruction of the Nose
  19. Reconstruction of the Lips
  20. Reconstruction of the Cheek
  21. Reconstruction of the Forehead
  22. Reconstruction of the Auricle
  23. Reconstruction of Congenital Auricular Malformations
  24. Reconstruction of the Scalp

  SECTION III: ADJUNCTIVE SURGERY

  25. Controlled Tissue Expansion In Facial Reconstruction
  26. Complications of Local Flaps
  27. Scar Revision of Local Flap Refinement
  28. Management of Vascular Abnormalities of the Face