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Complications in Cutaneous Surgery

Color Atlas of Cutaneous Excisions and Repairs
By Ken K. Lee, Neil A. Swanson, and Han N. Lee
173 pp, $130
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-6024-6
Complications in Cutaneous Surgery
Edited by Hugh M. Gloster Jr
245 pp, $149.50
New York, NY, Springer, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-3877-3151-3

JAMA. 2008;300(4):443-444.

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As the number of cutaneous surgeries increases in parallel with sun-seeking behavior and an aging population,¹ 2 new books on cutaneous surgery and its complications will be especially welcomed. The first is the elegant Color Atlas of Cutaneous Excisions and Repairs, appropriately dedicated "To our patients" by the authors. Suturing techniques are duly illustrated in the first chapter. Diagrams and clinical photographs in the second chapter depict simple excision and repair. Flaps and grafts (common subjects for questions on the dermatology board examination) are presented in the third and fourth chapters. The remaining chapters detail surgeries by anatomical region: scalp, forehead and temple, cheek, eyelid, ear, and nose. If readers have never seen a composite graft transferring ear helix to the nasal ala (pp 56-57), a wedge repair of the lower eyelid (p 101), a paramedical forehead flap takedown (p 155), or a mucosal advancement flap of the lower . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Cory A. Dunnick, MD, Reviewer
Departments of Dermatology and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver

Robert P. Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH, Reviewer
Departments of Dermatology and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver VA Medical Center
robert.dellavalle@uchsc.edu

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