List of contributers .- Acute stress disorder and post traumatic stress disorder in individuals suffering from burn injury .- Long term consequences of burn injuries .- Skin architecture and function .- Burn wound healing: Pathophysiology .- Burn scar treatment .- Scar assessment .- The future of wound documentation: three-dimensional, evidence-based, intuitive and thorough .- Evaluation of mimic function in patients with facial burns by use of the three-dimensional video-analysis .- Rehabilitation and scar management .- Exercise .- Principles of burn reconstruction .- Tissue expanders in burn surgery .- Burn reconstruction: Skin substitutes and tissue engineering .- Twelve year follow-up: a clinical study on dermal regeneration .- Generation of adipose tissue based in tissue engineering: An overview .- Burn reconstuction: Neck region .- Burn reconstruction: Eye region .- Reconstruction of the post burn ear .- Reconstruction of the perioral region after facial burns .- Nasal reconstruction .- Reconstruction/Correction of burn alopecia .- Burn reconstruction: Breast .- Reconstruction of burn deformities of the lower extremity .- Thermal injuries to the foot .- Burn reconstruction: Hand and upper extremity .- Facial transplantation .- Modern myoprostheses in electric burn injuries of the upper extremity .- Subject index
About the Author: Lars P. Kamolz, M.D., Ph.D. M.Sc., Section of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Landesklinikum Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Marc J. Jeschke, M.D. Ph.D. FACS, FRCSC, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Ross Tilley Burn Center, Toronto, Canada
Raymund E. Horch, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical Center, Erlangen, Germany
Markus Kuentscher, MD, Evangelische Elisabeth Klinik Krankenhausbetriebs gGmbH, Berlin
Pavel Brychta, Department of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic and President of European Burns Association (EBA)