Unlike any other podiatric text available, this new textbook focuses on the treatment of skin and soft tissue problems of the foot and ankle area using techniques borrowed from facial plastic surgery, hand reconstructive surgery and general soft tissue plastic surgery fields and modified to be used on the foot and ankle areas. This textbook provides a detailed outline and description of evaluating, examining and documenting lower extremity skin and soft tissue conditions. It addresses these problems with a variety of techniques including suturing, incisional and excisional techniques, along with the appropriate reconstructive and plastic surgical procedures for each condition.
Foreword Preface Chapter 1 Preoperative Patient Evaluation Chapter 2 Cutaneous Anatomy and Its Surgical Implications Chapter 3 Surgical Principles Chapter 4 Basic Instruments and Tissue Handling Chapter 5 Anesthesia Chapter 6 Hemostatic Techniques Chapter 7 Suture Materials and Techniques Chapter 8 Wound Healing Properties Chapter 9 An Introduction to Digital Medical Photography Chapter 10 Excisional Techniques and Procedures Chapter 11 Biopsy Techniques Chapter 12 Flap Classification and Survival Factors Chapter 13 V-Y and Y-V Plasty Chapter 14 Z and W Skin Plasty Chapter 15 Advancement and Rotational Flaps Chapter 16 Transpositional Flaps Chapter 17 Skin Grafts Chapter 18 Autografts, Allografts and Xenografts in Cutaneous Surgery Chapter 19 Soft Tissue Considerations in Partial Foot Amputations Chapter 20 The Role of Microsurgical Free Flaps in Foot and Ankle Surgery Chapter 21 The Use of Local Muscle Flaps in Foot and Ankle Reconstruction Chapter 22 Nail and Periungual Reconstruction Chapter 23 Digital Procedures Chapter 24 Foot and Ankle Benign Soft Tissue Masses Chapter 25 Surgical Dressings Chapter 26 Scars Chapter 27 Vacuum Assisted Closure® in Lower Extremity Reconstruction Chapter 28 Surgical Complications and Their Treatments