Elsevier, 2013 - 697p.
Plastic surgery and innovation in medicine.
History of reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.
Psychological aspects of plastic surgery.
The role of ethics in plastic surgery.
Business principles for plastic surgeons.
Medico-legal issues in plastic surgery.
Photography in plastic surgery.
Patient safety in plastic.
Local anesthetics in plastic surgery.
Evidence-based medicine and health services research in plastic surgery.
Genetics and prenatal diagnosis.
Principles of cancer management.
Stem cells and regenerative medicine.
Wound healing.
Skin wound healing: Repair biology, wound, and scar treatment.
Scar prevention, treatment, and revision.
Skin.
Tissue graft, tissue repair, and regeneration.
Tissue engineering.
Repair, grafting, and engineering of cartilage.
Repair and grafting of bone.
Repair and grafting of peripheral nerve.
Vascular territories.
Flap classification and applications.
Flap pathophysiology and pharmacology.
Principles and techniques of microvascular surgery.
Principles and applications of tissue expansion.
Therapeutic radiation: Principles, effects, and complications.
Vascular anomalies.
Benign and malignant nonmelanocytic tumors of the skin and soft tissue.
Melanoma.
Implants and biomaterials.
Facial prosthetics in plastic.
Transplantation in plastic surgery.
Technology innovation in plastic surgery: A practical guide for the surgeon innovator.
Robotics, simulation, and telemedicine in plastic surgery.