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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Restoration of function and correction of deformity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

 

·        Restoration of function and correction of deformity

·        Resulting from trauma, neoplasia, etc

·        Largely about transferring tissue

·        Techniques:

o   Direct closure

o   Graft: gets blood supply from wound site 

o   Flaps: brings blood supply with it (especially over bony prominences, and if further surgery will go through it again)

o   Tissue expansion

·        Always:

o   Repair in layers

o   External layers everted (if inverted then retraction ® depression)

·        Burns

·        See Mr Tan‟s very interesting but non-examinable hand-outs

 

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