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The present chapter deals with the most used techniques and widely approved principles in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the skin, with special emphasis on reconstruction after cancer excisions. Focus is on describing the most commonly used surgical procedures.

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  1. Plastic Surgery, Casa di Cura Addominale EUR, Viale Africa, 32, Rome, 00144, Italy

    Michele de Nuntiis, Enrico Baldessari & Riccardo Garcea

  2. Fondazione Futura-onlus, Rome, Italy

    Michele de Nuntiis & Enrico Baldessari

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    Enrico P Spugnini

Glossary

Flap

is a transfer of a one or more tissue from a donor site to a receiving site while maintaining integrum the vascular network.

Mohs surgery

is a seriate surgical technique for progressive removal of tumor tissue using immediate microscope histological controls to determine the extent of the tumor. This procedure ensures the radical operation and at the same time allows to better preserve the surrounding healthy tissue.

Plastic surgery

is a branch of surgery that aims to correct and repair morphological defects or functional losses of substance of different tissues that make up the human body either congenital or acquired as a result of trauma, cancer or degenerative diseases.

Skin expander

are silicone devices used to stretch and grow the skin. They are temporarily inserted under the skin and over subsequent months, they are gradually expanded through regular saline injections. When the skin has been adequately stretched, the tissue expanders are removed.

Skin graft

is a segment of one or more tissues that have lost all connection with the donor area, does not contain a network of blood vessels of its own, and that can be transferred from a donor site to an receiving area of substance loss (deficit), for reconstructive purposes, resulting from trauma or tumor excision.

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de Nuntiis, M., Baldessari, E., Garcea, R. (2014). Skin Cancer Surgery. In: Baldi, A., Pasquali, P., Spugnini, E. (eds) Skin Cancer. Current Clinical Pathology. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7357-2_22

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