Plastics Flashcards
What are the three common types of skin cancers?
Melanoma
Basal
Squamous
Which skin cancer has the highest occurrence rate?
Basal at 70%
Which skin cancer is most aggressive?
Squamous
What is Mohs surgery?
Specialized excision used to tat basal and squamous. Layer by layer under microscope examination until abnormal tissue removed
What type of burns are there?
Thermal
Chemical
Electric
What are the degrees of burns?
First degree - outer layer of epidermis e.g sunburn
Second degree - all epidermis and upper part of dermis. Blisters present. No graft needed.
Third degree burn - skin, nerves, hair follicles, sweat glands, and subcutaneous tissue.
Fourth degree burn - all in third degree plus bone, muscle, tendons, blood vessels.
What do we do different for patients with burns regarding linen and room temp?
Sterile linen and increase room temp.
What is excharotomy?
Debridement in 3rd degree burns - removal of eschar Remove necrotic tissue Expos fatty tissue underneath Tissue rehydration Skin graft
What is a Split thickness skin graft (STSG)?
Graft of epidermis and uppermost portion of dermis
Heals in approx 14 days
Site reused.
What is a full thickness skin graft?
Epidermis and dermis
Retains characteristics
Tissue does not regenerate.
Which skin graft instrument is used for a split thickness skin graft?
Brown dermatome
What is the humbler knife?
Manual adjustable roller skin graft instrument where the thickness of the graft can be controlled
What is the rule of nines?
Divide body into 11 areas of 9% each to estimate amount of skin surface burned in adult
What are flaps?
Tissue transferred from one area of body to another. Blood supply remains intact or is restored.
What types of flaps are there?
Skin
Subcutaneous tissue
Fascia, muscle
Bone
Reasons for flaps?
Replace tissue from trauma etc
Provide padding over bony prominences
Bring better blood supply to poorly vascularized areas
What are axial pattern flaps?
Specific artery and vein along axial portion of flap.
Can be longer and are used as island, pedicle, or free flaps
What are random pattern flaps?
Blood supplied by dermal and sub dermal vessels.
Limited length/width ratio
Used to rotate to fill defects
What are musculocutaneous flaps?
Skin, subcutaneous tissue, and muscle
Blood supply provided by muscles vessels, enabling survival from vascularity of muscle.
What are free flaps?
Used in extensive reconstructive procedures of head and neck following radical excisions for cancer.
May contain bone, vascular pedicle and nerves that may restore motor function and sensation
What are pedicle flaps?
Consists of skin and muscle
Very mobile although attached at one end
Can be rotated into distant defects
What kind of flaps may be used in reconstructive breast surgery?
Pedicle
Free flaps using microsurgical techniques