Book[edited by] Andrew C. Krakowski, MD, founder and director,
... Show More Scar Treatment and Revision (S.T.A.R.) Institute, chief medical officer, DermOne, LLC, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania ; Peter R. Shumaker, MD, Captain, United States Navy, chairman, dermatology, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, clinical associate professor of dermatology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
Contents:
1. A historical perspective on scar management
2. The global impact of scars
3. Medical conditions associated with scarring and fibrosis
4. Scars and scar management: ethical considerations
5. Scar histopathology and morphologic classification
6. The cellular and molecular basis of scarring: the paradigm of hypertrophic scarring after thermal injury
7. The biomechanics of scar formation
8. An approach to scar mitigation
9. Optimizing wound healing and scar formation
10. Medical managment of scars
11. Neurobiology of scars: managing pain and itch
12. Surgical scar revision
13. Lasers and light devices in scar management
14. Laser-assisted delivery of therapeutic agents
15. Fat grafting for scar treatment
16. Multimodal scar management
17. Atrophic scar management
18. Scar management in skin of color
19. Rehabilitative burn scar management
20. Scar camouflage
21. Medical tattooing
22. A pediatric perspective
23. A perspective from military medicine
24. Recovery and reintegration after burn injury
25. Integrating scar management into clinical practice
26. Scar treatment, restoration, and prevention- beyond the horizon?
27. Fetal wound healing
28. Clinical scar research: quantitative and qualitative assessment of hypertrophic burn scars.