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- Comprehensive reference resource covering the complete field of wounds and scar management: semiology, classifications and scoring
- Valuable 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. Contents Overview- Biology and Scar Formation
- Epidemiology of Scars and Their Consequences
- Hypertrophic and Keloid Scar: Genetics and Proteomic Studies
- International Scar Classifications
- Scar Symptoms
- Scar Assessment Scales
- Objective Assessment Technologies (Cutometer, Laser Doppler, 3D Imaging, Stereophotogrammetry)
- Treatment of Immature Scars: Evidence-Based Considerations
- Minimal-Invasive Technologies for Treatment of HTS and Keloids
- Invasive Techniques in Scar Management
- Specific Attention Areas in Scar Management
- Psychological Impact of Burn Injuries
- Emerging Technologies in Scar Management
- Scars from a Clinical Perspective: Commented Clinical Cases
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