Some techniques of plastic reconstruction in the treatment of sequela of burn in the face, head and neck
- Author:
Son Thiet Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
burn
- MeSH:
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures, burns
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
1998;346(3):11-15
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
This study was conducted in order to review the experience in the reconstruction of postburn head-neck deformities effect in Hµ Néi plastic surgery Centre between 1995 and 1997. 135 procedures were used to reconstruct postburn scar in 55 patients. All the patients had suffered deforming flame and chemical burns in the head and the neck. Some of the reconstructions ware essential procedures, such as eyelid ectropion, neck release by means of Z plastics, skin grafts, expanded flaps, local flaps, and free flaps... Reconstruction of some parts of face, head of aesthetic importance were the late elective procedures which can be performed after scar maturation.
