Textbook on Scar Management State of the Art Management and Emerging Technologies /

Textbook on Scar Management State of the Art Management and Emerging Technologies /

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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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Téot, Luc (Editor), Mustoe, Thomas A. (Editor), Middelkoop, Esther (Editor), Gauglitz, Gerd G. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic.
Dermatology.
Cancer > Treatment.
Plastic Surgery.
Cancer Therapy.
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Table of Contents:
  • (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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