Facial Danger Zones: Avoiding Nerve Injury in Facial Plastic Surgery - Hardcover

Seckel, Brooke

9781626235632: Facial Danger Zones: Avoiding Nerve Injury in Facial Plastic Surgery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626235635 ISBN 13: 9781626235632

Publisher: Thieme, 2010

Subperiosteal, extended sub-SMAS, deep plane, and composite rhytidectomy are all names that have been used to describe the current, more extensive operations for facial rejuvenation. Although these procedures provide superior results, they also involve deeper dissections with the potential for injury to the facial nerves. In order to avoid injury to these nerves, a thorough understanding of their locations is crucial for surgeons performing these operations.

Facial Danger Zones, 2nd Edition, by Dr. Brooke Seckel, provides the key to safety in these procedures. Drawing on his expertise in neurology and plastic surgery, Dr. Seckel has created a practical and beautifully illustrated color atlas to alert surgeons to the facial danger zones encountered in these deep plane face lifts. Divided into seven major facial danger zones, this clinical atlas takes each zone and graphically demonstrates the nerve and consequence of injury, the anatomic borders of each facial danger zone, and the techniques for safe surgical dissection.

If you are performing, or preparing for, the more extensive face-lift procedures, this book will help you avoid the surgical complications of facial nerve damage. It is a must for every plastic surgeon performing face lifts or any facial procedure.

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Review:

"In 48 pages the author, assisted with beautiful illustrations, describes the danger zones in the face where the facial nerve and the sensory branches of the Vth are at risk. At first glance this may seem rather unnecessary to those brought up in the days when considerable emphasis was placed on anatomical knowledge. Nevertheless, this book demands one’s interest as there are few surgeons practising the more advanced face lifting techniques who have not known a moment of fear when a nerve they had not been expecting presents itself."
―The British Journal of Plastic Surgery

"As a clinical atlas that can be read in an hour or so, this is a concise and professional effort ... that will prove useful to the neophyte facial plastic surgeon just beginning the more extensive facelift procedures."
―Head & Neck

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