Vasilios K. Thomaidis

2014

From Anatomy to Surgery

It is said, “fear in surgery is fear of anatomy.” Unfortunately there is a chasm between the anatomy learned in the traditional way and what we see during surgery. The aim of this work is to offer the means to resolve this in a comprehensive way, by bridging relative anatomy straight to the surgical use of cutaneous fl aps in head and neck reconstruction, which is not normally found in a single text. Cutaneous local and regional fl aps still remain a basic tool in the armamentarium of surgeons coming from different specialties that work in the head and neck area.