Textbook on scar management : state of the art management and emerging technologies

Textbook on scar management state of the art management and emerging technologies

This text book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Written by a group of international experts in the field and the result of over ten years of collaboration, it allows students and readers to gain to gain a detailed understanding of scar and wound treatment – a topic still dispersed among var...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Téot, Luc. editor (editor), Mustoe, Thomas A. editor, Middelkoop, Esther. editor, Gauglitz, Gerd G. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature 2020
2020.
Edición:1st ed. 2020.
Materias:
Cancer > Surgery.
Scars > Treatment.
Surgery, Plastic.
Plastic Surgery
Dermatology
Surgical Oncology
Surgery
Open access
keloid
wounds
burns
scar revision
reconstructive surgery
scar remodelling
hypertrophic scars
scar stabilisation
skin grafting
Scars and 3D Imagery
stereophotogrammetry
scar classification
scar evaluation scales
atrophic scarring
wound healing
cutometer
burn physiotherapy
skin substitutes
Plastic & reconstructive surgery
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • (see attached PDF for latest version) Foreword
  • Preface
  • I Semiology of scars, classifications and scoring
  • 1 Biology and scar formation
  • 2 Epidemiology of scars and their consequences
  • 3 Scar symptoms: itching, redness, thickness, contractures, colour, hyper/hypochromia, psychological disorders
  • 4 International classification and semiology od scars
  • 5 Scar evaluation scales (Vancouver, POSAS, Manchester)
  • 6 Assessment technologies (cutometer, laser Doppler, 3D imaging, stereophotogrammetry)
  • II Scars management and Evidence-based medicine
  • 7 Non-invasive technologies (lasers fractional ER Yag, pulsed dye, fractional CO2, silicone, pressure garments, postop devices) and psychological management
  • 8 Semi invasive technologies (injections corticoteroids, antimitotic, needling)
  • 9 Invasive techniques (surgery with local flaps, resurfacing, skin substitutes, microsurgical flaps, fat injections, others)
  • 10 Specific scar management depending on anatomical features (face, hair, breast, hand, joints, foot)
  • 11Cosmetic requirements depending on age and social considerations
  • III State- of- the –Art Scar management technologies
  • 12 Recently developed new technologies (mechanical, chemical)
  • 13 Cultural and traditional approaches
  • 14 Cellular skin substitutes
  • 15 New drugs for scar treatment
  • 16 Vacuum massage in scar treatment
  • 17 Shock wave therapy for scar treatment
  • Subject Index.

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