[Esthetic reconstruction of the face in burnt patients]

Ann Chir Plast Esthet. 1993 Apr;38(2):141-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

All reconstruction should be aesthetic but in burned patient, everything combines to make a cosmetically satisfactory result more difficult to achieve. However the burns patients, deformed and disfigured has to confront the gaze of others in daily life. Three points are discussed by authors: skin quality can be improved or replaced by a full thickness pressure graft; surgical modification of the underlying structures; repair of peri-orificial areas and free edges.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Burns / surgery*
  • Esthetics
  • Facial Injuries / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Skin Transplantation / methods*
  • Surgery, Plastic / methods*