Essential tissue healing of the face and neck
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Essential tissue healing of the face and neck
People's Medical Pub., 2009
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This unique textbook focuses exclusively on wound healing of the face and neck, integrating scientific principle with state-of-the-art clinical precept. Detailed, step-by-step surgical techniques demonstrate the best methods of repair of tissue. Contemporary healing concepts encompass the structures of the skin, cartilage, bone, nerve, oral mucosa, middle ear mucosa and airway mucosa.The book benefits from the diverse backgrounds and expertise of each of its authors bringing the reader new insights to the question of why some facial and neck wounds heal satisfactorily and others do not. Dr. Hom suggests a holistic approach to surgery of the face and neck that includes the healing process. Future directions for wound healing of the face and neck are also illuminated. The first section describes the healing aspects of the structures of the face and neck the second section addresses common clinical tissue healing problems encountered and methods to treat them. The third section discusses specific therapies used to optimize healing.
Table of Contents
Section One: Salient Healing Features of Specific Tissues of the Face and Neck
1: Wound Healing of Skin, Hebda
2: Facial Bones, Yu, Dinsmore
3: Craniofacial Cartilage Wound Healing: Implications for Facial Surgeons, Friedman, Micou
4: Peripheral Nerve, Rowe, Matloub
5: Salient Healing Features of Muscles of the Face & Neck, Kalliainen
6: Salient Features of the Oral Mucosa, Wehrhan, Schultze-Mosgau, Schliephake
7: Wound Healing of the Larynx, Thibeault
8: Wound Healing in the Subglottis & Trachea, Dohar, Hebda, Sandulache
9: Cervical Esophagus, Maddalozzo, Sulman
10: Salient Healing Features of the Tympanic Membrane, Hellstrom
11: Sinonasal Mucosal Wound Healing: Implications for Contemporary Rhinologic Surgery, Shipchandler, Batra, Citardi
Section Two: Clinical Problems and Issues of Healing Tissues
12: Burned Facial Skin, Gosain, Das
13: Keloids and Hypertrophic Scarring, Chim, Tang
14: Laser Resurfaced Facial Skin: Clinical Problems & Issues of Healing Tissues: Pearls and Pitfalls, Koch, Banthia
15: Irradiated Skin and its Postsurgical Management, Hom, Ho, Lee
16: Irradiated Soft Tissue Wounds, Adams
17: Nonunion of the Mandible and the Irradiated Mandible, MacLeod
18: Irradiated Temporal Bone, Hahn, Brodie
19: Cranial Suture Biology and Craniosynostosis, Longaker, Nacamuli, Wan
20: Vocal Fold Scar, Sataloff
21: Clinical Considerations of Wound Healing in the Subglottis and Trachea, Ottenson, Parekh, Dohar
22: The Facial Nerve After Injury, May, Boaheni
Section Three: Therapeutic Options
23: General Approach to a Poorly Healing Problem Wound: Practical and Clinical Overview, Hom, Dresner
24: Nutrition and Wound Healing, Barbul, Katz
25: Controlling Infection, Johnson, Fraioli
26: Wound Debridement, Brem, Schultz, Ayello
27: Hyperbaric Oxygen and Wound Healing in the Head & Neck, Feldmeir
28: Blood Products in Wound Healing, Greene, Johnson, O'Grady, Toriumi
29: Growth Factors - Modulators of Wound Healing, Nanney, Greco
30: Vacuum Assisted Devices for Difficult Wounds of the Face & Neck, Stoeckel, Molnar, Argenta, DeFranzo
31: Choice of Wound Dressings and Ointments, Brown, Zitelli
32: Adipose Tissue in Stem Cell Biology, Ogle, Katz, Tholopady
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