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Téot, Mustoe, Middelkoop, Gauglitz Textbook on Scar Management

State of the Art Management and Emerging Technologies

ISBN: 978-3-030-44765-6

Edition: 1st Ed.

Publication date: December 2020

Cover: Hardcover

Pages: 553 p.

Illustrations: 231 ill.

Publisher: Springer

Delivery times, dependent on availability and publisher: between 2 and 14 days from when you complete the order.

Description

  • Comprehensive reference resource covering the complete field of wounds and scar management: semiology, classifications and scoring 
  • Valuable for for trainees as well as professionals in plastic surgery, dermatology, surgery, oncology, nurses and general practitioners
  • Offers quick access to information through key points, take-home messages, highlights, and a wealth of clinical cases
  • Enhanced by supplementary material and videos

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 various disciplines. The content is divided into three parts for easy reference. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of scar management, including assessment and evaluation procedures, classification, tools for accurate measurement of all scar-related elements (volume density, color, vascularization), descriptions of the different evaluation scales. It also features chapters on the best practices in electronic-file storage for clinical reevaluation and telemedicine procedures for safe remote evaluation. The second section offers a comprehensive review of treatment and evidence-based technologies, presenting a consensus of the various available guidelines (silicone, surgery, chemical injections, mechanical tools for scar stabilization, lasers). The third part evaluates the full range of emerging technologies offered to physicians as alternative or complementary solutions for wound healing (mechanical, chemical, anti-proliferation). Textbook on Scar Management will appeal to trainees, fellows, residents and physicians dealing with scar management in plastic surgery, dermatology, surgery and oncology, as well as to nurses and general practitioners