Total Scar Management: From Lasers to Surgery for Scars, Keloids, and Scar Contractures

This book aims to discuss available treatments for “scars” and analyze their mechanisms from an international perspective.

“Scars” are now receiving considerably more attention internationally because the topic of patients’ quality of life (QOL) of patients has gained importance. Total Scar Management highlights many “new” and “practical” issues related to scars, such as various treatments for post-burn scars, traumatic scars, keloids and hypertrophic scars, aesthetic management of scars, reconstructive surgery of scar contractures, primary research, etc.

Written by an international team of prominent experts in their respective fields, the book presents the latest and most helpful advances regarding “scars,” offering a unique resource for all plastic surgeons, dermatologists, aesthetic surgeons, wound surgeons, wound healing specialists, and general surgeons who are interested in the aesthetic outcomes of their work.