Grabb and Smith's plastic surgery / editor-in-chief, Charles H. Thorne ; editors, Robert W. Beasley [and others]..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Techniques and principles in plastic surgery -- Wound healing: normal and abnormal -- Wound care -- The blood supply of the skin -- Muscle flaps and their blood supply -- Transplant biology and applications to plastic surgery -- Implant materials -- Principles of microsurgery -- Microsurgical repair of peripheral nerves and nerve grafts -- Tissue expansion -- Local anesthetics -- Principles of craniofacial distraction -- Dermatology for plastic surgeons -- Mohs micrographic surgery -- Congenital melanocytic nevi -- Malignant melanoma -- Thermal, chemical, and electrical injuries -- Principles of burn reconstruction -- Radiation and radiation injuries -- Lasers in plastic surgery -- Embryology of the head and neck -- Vascular anomalies -- Cleft lip and palate -- Nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and deformational plagiocephaly -- Craniosynostosis syndromes -- Craniofacial microsomia -- Orthognathic surgery -- Craniofacial clefts and hypertelorbitism -- Miscellaneous craniofacial conditions: fibrous dysplasia, moebius syndrome, Romberg's syndrome, treacher collins syndrome, dermoid cyst, neurofibromatosis -- Otoplasty and ear reconstruction -- Soft tissue and sketetal injuries of the face -- Head and neck cancer salivary gland tumors -- Skull base surgery -- Cranionfacial and maxillofacial prosthetics -- Reconstruction of the scalp, calvarium, and forehead -- Reconstruction of the lips -- Reconstruction of the cheeks -- Nasal reconstruction -- Reconstruction of the eyelids, correction of ptosis, and canthoplasty -- Facial paralysis reconstruction -- Mandible reconstruction -- Reconstruction of defects of the maxilla and skull base -- Reconstruction of the oral cavity, pharynx, and esophagus -- Cutaneous resurfacing: chemical peeling, dermabrasion, and laser resurfacing Filler materials -- Botulinum toxin -- Structural fat grafting -- Blepharoplasty -- Facelift -- Forehead lift -- Rhinoplasty -- Liposuction -- Abdominoplasty and lower truncal circumferential body contouring -- Facial skeletal augmentation with implants -- Osseous genioplasty -- Hair transplantation -- Augmentation mammoplasty and its complications -- Mastopexy and mastopexy augmentation -- Breast reduction: inverted-T technique -- Vertical reduction mammaplasty -- Gynecomastia -- Breast cancer for the plastic surgeon -- Breast reconstruction: prosthetic techniques -- Latissimus dorsi flap breast reconstruction -- Breast reconstruction: tram flap techniques -- Breast reconstruction-free flap techniques -- Nipple reconstruction -- Thoracic reconstruction -- Abdominal wall reconstruction -- Lower-extremity reconstruction -- Foot and ankle reconstruction -- Reconstruction of the perineum -- Lymphedema -- Pressure sores -- Reconstruction of the penis -- Plastic surgeons and the development of hand surgery -- Principles of upper limb surgery -- Radiologic imaging of the hand and wrist -- Soft-tissue reconstruction of the hand -- Fractures and ligamentous injuries of the wrist -- Fractures, dislocations, and ligamentous injuries of the hand -- Tendon healing and flexor tendon surgery -- Repair of the extensor tendon system -- Infections of the upper limb -- Tenosynovitis -- Compression neuropathies in the upper limb and electrophysioiogic studies -- Thumb reconstruction -- Tendon transfers -- Congenital hand abnormalities -- Dupuytren's disease -- Replantation in the upper extremity -- Upper limb arthritis -- Upper limb amputations and prostheses.