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Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Soft-tissue reconstruction organised as a ladder: direct closure, graft, local flap, free tissue, always the simplest rung that works. Hand surgery where millimetres are function, and burns, where the skin's failure becomes the whole body's problem.
Backdrop: A split-thickness skin graft donor site · User:Kevin308 · Public domain
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Split-thickness skin graft
Borrowing the top layers of skin from a healthy site to resurface a wound that cannot close itself; the graft survives on the bed it lands on, which is the whole art.
Indication: Burns after excision, large wounds with a healthy granulating bed, donor coverage after flap harvest.
Common and emergency operations
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Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Plastic surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.