Plastic reconstruction and skin cover after injuries and burns.

Plastic reconstruction and skin cover after injuries and burns.

THE PURPOSE of this paper is to summarize, for the benefit of busy surgeons in Casualty and Accident Departments, the role of plastic surgery in relation to injuries-including bums-in which the patient has suffered a serious breach of the 'skin envelope'; and also to consider certain aspects of facial injuries. It is not easy to cover so wide a subject in a small space, and technical details ca...

Role of Cultured Skin Fibroblasts in Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery

The skin is the largest tissue of man with several functions. Cosmetics/cosmeceuticals agents always are needed to be evaluated for their detrimental effects on the skin. Nowadays, the therapeutic potential of stem cells has and fibroblasts have increased the hope for a successful cell therapy in aesthetic medicine. Stem cells are unspecialized cells capable of renewing themselves through cell ...

The Surgery of Repair Injuries and Burns

Skin Grafting of Burns

This book outlines the essential points of care which have proved of benefit in treating a large series of patients with full-thickness loss of skin and requiring skin grafting, at the Washington University Medical School Children's Hospital and Barnes Hospital, during the course of a long period. In the first chapter, the authors stato : ' In the extensive literature on burn's, there has been ...

A rare approach? Microsurgical breast reconstruction after severe burns

Breast deformity, in post-burn patients, is a common problem leading to lower self-esteem and reclusive behavior that impairs quality of life. The authors present the course of treatment of an 18-year-old immigrant girl who suffered second- to third-degree burns over approximately 20% of her total body surface area in her early childhood. The second- to third-degree burns were located on her ri...