An illustrated handbook of flap-raising techniques.9783131477613 An illustrated handbook of flap-raising techniques. Krishnan, Kartik G. Thieme Medical Publishers 2008 111 pages $129.95 Hardcover RD120 Fully illustrated in color by the author, this comprehensive text gives step-by-step instructions on harvesting essential flaps of the torso and extremities in the reconstruction and repair of large skin injuries due to trauma and extensive skin cancers. Krishnan (neurosurgery neurosurgery /neu·ro·sur·gery/ (noor´o-sur?jer-e) surgery of the nervous system. neu·ro·sur·ger·y n. Surgery on any part of the nervous system. , Carl Gustav Carus Carl Gustav Carus (1789 – 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born at Leipzig. A friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist and a psychologist and an advocate of the theory that health of body and mind U.) offers more than 200 illustrations and schematics demonstrating key concepts and includes practical descriptions of common pitfalls. He explains preparation and use of flaps of the upper extremity upper extremity n. The shoulder, arm, forearm, wrist, or hand. Also called superior limb, thoracic limb. , including the latter alarm flat, the lower extremity, including the gracilis muscle grac·i·lis muscle n. A muscle with origin in the ramus of the pubis, with insertion to the shaft of the tibia, with nerve supply from the obturator nerve, and whose action adducts the thigh, flexes the knee, and rotates the leg medially. flap, and the torso including the groin flap and the scapular scap·u·lar or scap·u·lar·y adj. Of or relating to the shoulder or scapula. scapular, adj pertaining to the region of the scapulae. scapular pertaining to the scapula. skin flap. In an appendix he describes vascular patterns of soft-tissue flaps; especially useful are Krishnan's descriptions of instrumentation and microvascular and microneural suturing techniques. This is an essential reference as well as a practice and study guide. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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