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Author: Andrew Kaufman

ISBN: 9780443264375
Pages: 272
Published: July 2025
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Elsevier.

Description:

An ideal resource for both the novice and experienced surgeon, Practical Facial Reconstruction: Theory and Practice is a practical, step-by-step guide to facial repair, written by a highly experienced authority in the field. In this fully updated Second Edition, Dr. Andrew Kaufman walks you through decision making in repair design and execution, offering tips, pearls, and key points that make seemingly complicated flaps less complicated, and repairs more aesthetic and functionally...

Key Features

Covers cheek, forehead, nose, lip, ear, and eyelid reconstruction, with ample pearls, tips, and key points for each repair
Walks you through the thought process of evaluating a surgical defect, analyzing it, and designing and executing the repair to achieve optimal functional and cosmetic results
Shares Dr. Kaufman’s personal tips, tricks, and pearls for every repair, with the goal of simplifying and demystifying many useful reconstruction techniques
Features hundreds of high-quality, step-by-step photographs and line drawings throughout, plus more than 30 all-new procedural videos
Covers simpler as well as more complex repairs, including bilobed transposition flaps, helical rim advancement flaps, unilateral and bilateral rotation flaps, cartilage grafts on the nose, rhombic transposition flaps, melolabial transposition flaps, advancement flaps on the nose, lips, eyebrow, and forehead, island advancement flaps, and much more
Provides a unique theoretical and practical framework for identifying defects and developing a reconstructive plan that can be applied to a wide variety of situations beyond those covered in the book
An eBook version is included with purchase, with searchable, customizable content, note-taking, highlighting, and read-aloud functionality

Table of Contents
Part I: Theory
Chapter 1: Principles, Design, Completion 
1.1. Principles of Reconstruction
1.2. Anatomical Considerations
1.3. Patient Considerations
1.4. Design Repair
1.5. Surgical Technique
1.6. Execution of Repair
1.7. Wound Care
Part II: Practice
Chapter 2: Practical Aspects of Facial Reconstruction
Chapter 3: Cheek and Chin Reconstruction
Chapter 4: Forehead and Temple Reconstruction
Chapter 5: Nose Reconstruction
Chapter 6: Lip Reconstruction
Chapter 7: Ear Reconstruction
Chapter 8: Eyelid Reconstruction
Videos
Chapter 2: 2-1 to 2-2 – Complex cheek and general repairs
Chapter 3: 3-1 to 3-6 – Infraorbital, preauricular cheek, and chin repairs
Chapter 4: 4-1 to 4-4 – Forehead and temple advancement flaps
Chapter 5: 5-1 to 5-18 – Various nasal repairs including bilobed and rotation flaps
Chapter 6: 6-1 to 6-3 – Lip advancement and philtral reconstruction
Chapter 7: 7-1 to 7-5 – Ear repairs with transposition and interpolation flaps

Keywords:
facial reconstruction, reconstructive surgery, plastic surgery, flap techniques, surgical repair, facial flaps, cosmetic surgery, reconstructive techniques, surgical atlas, facial defects

Target Audience:
plastic surgeons, reconstructive surgeons, dermatologic surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, cosmetic surgeons, surgical residents, medical students, hospital libraries, academic institutions, surgical educators

Genre:
Medical, Surgery, Reconstructive Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Reference

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