Mohs and Cutaneous Surgery. Maximizing Aesthetic Outcomes

Description

Achieving the best aesthetic results in Mohs and other cutaneous surgery requires proper patient selection, careful surgical technique, and meticulous postoperative care. Yet despite the best efforts of both surgeon and patient, complications may develop, sometimes resulting in suboptimal or objectionable scarring.

Mohs and Cutaneous Surgery: Maximizing Aesthetic Outcomes describes in detail the techniques and procedures that help achieve the most aesthetic results in cutaneous surgery. The book covers wound healing, surgical planning, intraoperative techniques, and complications. Also covered are surgical scar revision, dermabrasion, laser scar revision, neuromodulators and fillers, as well as topical and intralesional therapies for the improvement of scars.

Features

• Describes numerous techniques to achieve the best aesthetic outcomes
• Covers wound healing, surgical planning, intraoperative techniques, and complications
• Details surgical scar revision, dermabrasion, laser scar revision, neuromodulators and fillers, as well as topical and intralesional therapies for the improvement of scars
• Includes more than 170 pre and postoperative color photographs as well as full-color anatomical drawings
• Includes intraoperative surgical techniques and pearls
• Written by distinguished contributors who are experts in their fields
• Includes full-color photos and illustrations

Table of Contents

PRE-OPERATIVE, INTRA-OPERATIVE, AND IMMEDIATE POST-OPERATIVE PERIOD: OPTIMIZING SURGICAL OUTCOMES

Wound Healing and Surgical Planning; Alexander L. Berlin, Sarah J. Felton, Christopher T. Burnett, Divya Srivastava
Intraoperative Surgical Techniques and Pearls; Laura Kline and Brett Coldiron
Intraoperative Surgical Techniques and Pearls—Special Considerations; Matteo C. Lopiccolo and Thomas E. Rohrer
Complications in Mohs Surgery; Jordan B. Slutsky and Scott W. Fosko

CORRECTIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE POST-OPERATIVE PERIOD

Surgical Scar Revision, Dermabrasion, and Other Physical Treatments; Ian A. Maher and Jeremy Bordeaux
Lasers and Laser-Like Devices; Lara K. Butler, Irene J. Vergilis, and Joel L. Cohen
Neuromodulators and Fillers; Suneel Chilukuri, Sailesh Konda, and Sean Bury
Topical and Intralesional Therapies; Ali M. Rkein and David M. Ozog

Author(s) Bio

Alexander L. Berlin, MD, is the director of the DFW Skin Surgery Center in Arlington, Texas, and assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, USA