Plastic Surgery Clerkship

This quick-reference guide is the first book written specifically for the many third- and fourth-year medical students rotating on the plastic surgery service. The book focuses on the diagnosis and management of the most common pathologic entities. Each chapter covers history, physical examination, imaging, and common diagnoses. For each diagnosis, the book sets out the typical presentation, options for non-operative and operative management, and expected outcomes. Chapters include key illustrations, quick-reference charts, tables, diagrams, and bulleted lists. Students can read the text from cover to cover to gain a general foundation of knowledge that can be built upon when they begin their rotation, then use specific chapters to review a sub-specialty before starting a new rotation or seeing a patient with a sub-specialty attending. Topics covered include burns, wound healing, microsurgery, flaps and grafts, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, deformity correction, and much more.
Practical and user-friendly, Plastic Surgery Clerkship is the ideal, on-the-spot resource for medical students and practitioners seeking fast facts on diagnosis and management. Its bullet-pointed outline format makes it a perfect quick reference, and its content breadth covers the most commonly encountered problems in clinical practice.

Fundamentals of Plastic Surgery. - Wound healing and scar formation. - Basics of flaps and grafts. - Tissue expansion. - Microsurgery. - Transplantation Biology. - Local anesthesia. - Lasers. - Skin lesions benign and malignant. - Burns. - Pressure ulcers. - Head and neck anatomy. - Cleft lip and palate. - Velopharyngeal dysfunction. - Craniofacial microsomia. - Congenital melanocytic nevi. - Vascular anomalies. - Craniosynostosis. - Orthognathic surgery. - Tessier clefts and hypertelorism. - Ear reconstruction and otoplasty. - Nasal reconstruction. - Scalp Reconstruction. - Eyelid reconstruction. - Lip reconstruction. - Facial fractures. - Head and neck tumors. - Complex Head and neck reconstruction. - Facial paralysis. - Breast anatomy. - Gynecomastia. - Breast reduction. - Breast augmentation, mastopexy, and implants. - Breast reconstruction Prosthetic. - Breast reconstruction autologous. - Abdominoplasty and body contouring. - Liposuction. - Facial analysis. - Nonsurgical facial rejuvenation. - Face lift and neck lift. - Rhinoplasty. - Blepharoplasty and ptosis repair. - Brow lift. - Botox and filler. - Brazilian butt lift. - Hand anatomy, function, and exam. - Hand infections. - Compression neuropathies. - Nerve transfers, repair, and complex amputation. - Brachial plexus. - Hand fractures. - Wrist fractures. - Hand tendon injuries. - Tendon transfers. - Ligament injuries. - Replantation. - Thumb reconstruction. - Dupuytren' s Contracture. - Hand tumors. - Vascular hand injuries. - Congenital hand. - Rheumatoid arthritis. - Osteoarthritis. - Chest reconstruction. - Abdominal wall reconstruction. - Lower extremity reconstruction. - Perineal reconstruction. - Lymphedema. - Gender-affirming Surgery.