Main description:

Flaps: Decision Making in Clinical Practice is an excellent readable guide for surgeons utilizing multiple techniques in plastic and reconstructive surgery. The authors have organized a pragmatic guide, specifically focused on those flaps which surgeons find difficult and challenging, with the latest technical developments in all anatomical areas.

Contents:

Decision Making in Head and Neck Reconstruction.- 1 Adaptable Nasal Reconstruction with an Axial Forehead Flap.- 2 Abbe Flap for Lip Reconstruction.- 3 Head and Neck Reconstruction with the Temporal Muscle.- Decision Making in Breast Reconstruction.- 4 Critical Choices in Breast Reconstruction.- Decision Making in Chest Reconstruction.- 5 Chest Wall Reconstruction: The Sternal Wound.- 6 Closure of Intrathoracic Wounds.- Decision Making in Upper Extremity Reconstruction.- 7 Forearm Coverage with Free Latissimus Muscle Flap and Skin Graft.- 8 Extensive Hand Coverage with the Reversed Radial Forearm Flap.- Decision Making in Abdominal Reconstruction.- 9 Reconstruction of Full-Thickness Defects of the Abdominal Wall.- 10 Reconstruction of the Penis.- Decision Making in Perineal Reconstruction.- 11 Ischial Pressure Sore Reconstruction with V-Y Hamstring Advancement Flap Reconstruction.- 12 Groin and Perineal Wounds.- Decision Making in Lower Extremity Reconstruction.- 13 Scapular Free Flap.- 14 Free Fibula Reconstruction.