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

The purpose of this book is 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 in importance. Total Scar Management highlights many new and practical topics 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, basic researches, 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.