Main description:

A definitive summary of novel techniques, this volume details the most current and multidisciplinary approach to new technologies used in general plastic surgery, hand surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, microsurgery, breast surgery, esthetic surgery, and trauma surgery. It also gives an overview of the most important and clinically relevant plastic surgery research.

The aim is to stimulate the reader to look at future advances and applications of research and their relevance to daily clinical practice in plastic surgery.

Appropriate for different sub-specialties not only in plastic surgery (breast, face, esthetic, hand, microsurgery chapters) but also in orthopedics (hand, microsurgery, nerve chapters) and neurosurgery (peripheral nerve chapter), this book will also be of great interest to trainee surgeons.

Contents:

Orthoplastic Reconstruction of the Arms and Legs.- Clinical Application of Composite Tissue Allografts.- Advanced Concepts in Vascularized Tissue Transfer in the Hand.- Subcutaneous Tissue Function: The MultimicroVacuolar Absorbing Sliding System in Hand and Plastic Surgery.- Innovations in Peripheral Nerve Surgery.- Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Techniques in Peripheral Nerve Surgery of the Hand and Forearm.- Soft Tissue Reconstruction with Perforator Flaps.- Remote Ischemic Preconditioning of Flaps: Current Concepts.- Advances in Facial Aesthetic Surgery: New Approaches to Old Problems and Current Approaches to New Problems.- Perspectives for Facial Allograft Transplantation in Humans.- Tissue Engineering: Current Approaches and Future Directions.- The Role of Stem Cells in Plastic Surgery.