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Plastic Surgery: 6-Volume Set

  • 5th Edition - September 25, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Peter C. Neligan
  • Language: English

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery**Comprehensive and fully up to date, Dr. Peter Neligan’s six-volume masterwork, Plastic Sur… Read more

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**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery**

Comprehensive and fully up to date, Dr. Peter Neligan’s six-volume masterwork, Plastic Surgery, 5th Edition, remains the gold standard text in this complex area of surgery. Completely revised to meet the demands of both the trainee and experienced surgeon, it features new, full-color clinical photos, procedural videos, and lectures across all six volumes. Bonus material online includes additional text, images, and over 200 procedural videos that help you improve your mastery of the latest techniques.

Key features

  • Easily find the answers you need with an organization that features separate volumes covering Principles • Aesthetic • Craniofacial, Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatric Plastic Surgery • Lower Extremity, Trunk and Burns • Breast • and Hand and Upper Extremity. Each easily readable, individual volume is a standalone comprehensive text full of salient and applicable anatomy and techniques
  • Key procedures include gender affirmation management and surgery, microsurgery and surgery for lymphedema, aesthetic facial surgery, aesthetic body surgery, and the education, training and practice of plastic surgery
  • New digital video preface by Dr. Neligan addresses the changes across all six volume
  • New treatment and decision-making algorithms added to chapters where applicable
  • New video lectures and editor-narrated slide presentations offer a step-by-step audiovisual walkthrough of techniques and procedures
  • Four new international experts join the editorial team, and lead editor Peter C. Neligan creates a cohesive tone throughout the chapters and content across all six volumes
  • Evidence-based advice from a diverse collection of experts allows you to apply the very latest advances in every area of plastic surgery and ensure optimal outcomes
  • Purchase only the volumes you need or own the entire set, with the ability to search across all six volumes online!
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (trainee and practicing plastic surgeons)

Table of contents

VOLUME 1

1 Plastic Surgery and Innovation in Medicine

2 History of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

3 Applying Psychology to Routine Plastic Surgery Practice

4 The Role of Ethics in Plastic Surgery and Medico-legal Issues In Plastic Surgery

5 Business Principles for Plastic Surgeons

6 Value Based HealthCare

7 Digital Photography in Plastic Surgery

8 Pre- and Intra-operative Imaging for Plastic Surgery

9 Patient Safety in Plastic Surgery

10 Anesthesia and Pain Management in Plastic Surgery

11 Evidence-Based Medicine in Plastic Surgery

12 Patient-Reported Outcomes in Plastic Surgery

13 Health Services Research in Plastic Surgery

14 Principles of Cancer Management

15 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

15 Wound Healing

16 Scar Prevention, Treatment and Revision

17 Skin Grafting

18 Tissue Engineering

19 Repair, Grafting and Engineering of Cartilage

20 Repair and Grafting of Bone

21 Repair and Grafting of Peripheral Nerve

22 Repair and Grafting Fat and Adipose Tissue

23 Vascular Territories

24 Flap Physiology, Classification, and Applications

25 Principles and Techniques of Microvascular Surgery

26 Principles and Applications of Tissue Expansion

27 Principles of Radiation

28 Lymphedema: Pathophysiology and Basic Science

29 Benign and Malignant Non Melanocytic Tumors of the Skin and Soft Tissue

30 Melanoma

31 Implants and Biomaterials

32 Transplantation in Plastic Surgery

33 Technology Innovation in Plastic Surgery

34 Robotics in Plastic Surgery

35 Digital Health in Plastic Surgery

36 Simulation & Telemedicine in Plastic Surgery

36 Overview of Minimally Invasive Procedures

37 Education and Teaching in Plastic Surgery

38 Global Plastic Surgery

39 Gender Affirming Surgery

VOLUME 2

1 Managing the Aesthetic Surgery Patient

2 Principles of Practice Management for Cosmetic Surgery

3 Managing Non-surgical Aesthetic Services and Medical Spa

4 Essential Elements of Patient Safety in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

5 Multimodal

6 Blocks

7 Local Anesthesia

8 Non-Surgical Skin Care and Rejuvenation

9.1 Editors' Perspective: Injectables and Resurfacing Techniques

9.2 Soft Tissue Fillers

9.3 Botulinum Toxin/Neurotoxins

9.4 Lasers in Aesthetic Surgery

9.5 Chemical Peels

9.6 Minimally Invasive Multimodal Facial Rejuvenation

10.1 Editors' Perspective: Surgical Facial Rejuvenation

10.2 Anatomy of the Aging Face

10.3 Principles and Surgical Approaches of Facelift

10.4 Facelift: Facial Rejuvenation With Loop Sutures; The MACS lift and its Derivatives

10.5 Facelift: Lateral Smasectomy and Platysma-SMAS Plication

10.6 Facelift:The Extended SMAS Technique in Facial Rejuvenation

10.7 High SMAS Facelift: Combined Single Flap Lifting of the Jawline, Cheek and Mid-face

10.8 Lift and Fill

10.9 Neck Rejuvenation

10.10 Facelift: The Male Patient

10.11 Secondary Deformities and the Secondary Facelift

10.12 Perioral Facial Rejuvention - including chin

10.13 Facial Feminization

11 Editors' Perspective: Forehead and Eyes

12 Forehead Rejuvenation

13 Endoscopic Brow Lifting

14 Blepharoplasty

15 Secondary Blepharoplasty: Techniques

16 Asian Facial Cosmetic Surgery

17 Structural Fat Grafting and other fat

18 Editors' Perspective: Rhinoplasty

19 Nasal Analysis and Anatomy

20 Open Technique Rhinoplasty

21 Closed Technique Rhinoplasty

22 Airway Issues and the Deviated Nose

23 Secondary Rhinoplasty

24 Otoplasty

25 Hair Restoration

26.1 Editors' Perspective: Liposuction

26.2 Liposuction: A Comprehensive Review of Techniques and Safety and non surgical fat removal

26.3 Correcting liposuction deformities with S.A.F.E liposuction technique

27 Editors' Perspective: Abdominal Contouring

28 Abdominoplasty

29 Lipoabdominoplasty

30 Editors' Perspective: Truncal Contouring

31 Bra-Line Back Lift

32 Belt Lipectomy

33 Circumferential Lower Bodylift

34 Purse-string Gluteoplasty

35 Lower Bodylift with Gluteal Flaps

36.1 Editors' Perspective: Buttock Augmentation

36.2 Implant Based Buttock augmentation

36.3 Buttock Fat Grafting and Liposuction

37 Upper Limb Contouring

38 Medial Thigh

39 Principles of Post Bariatric Surgery

40 Energy Devices in Aesthetic Surgery

41 Aesthetic Genital Surgery

VOLUME 3

1 Management of Facial Trauma

2 Scalp and Forehead Reconstruction

3 Aesthetic Reconstruction of the Nose

4 Auricular Construction

5 Secondary Treatment of Acquired Cranio-orbital Deformities

6.1 Introduction: Computerized Surgical Planning

6.2 Three-Dimensional Virtual Planning in Orthognathic Surgery

6.3 Computerized Surgical Planning in Head and Neck Reconstruction

7 Introduction: Post-Oncologic Reconstruction

8 Overview of Head and Neck: Bony and Soft Tissue Tumors

9 Mid-Face Reconstruction

10 Local Flaps for Facial Coverage

11 Lip Reconstruction

12 Oral Cavity, Tongue and Mandibular Reconstructions

13 Hypopharyngeal, Esophageal and Neck Reconstruction

14 Secondary Facial Reconstruction

15 Facial Paralysis

16 Surgical Management of Facial Pain, Including Migraines

17 Facial Feminization

18 Embryology of the Craniofacial Complex

19.1 Unilateral Cleft Lip Introduction

19.2 Rotation Advancement

19.3 Extended Mohler Repair

19.4 Anatomic Subunit Approximation Approach to Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair

20 Repair of Bilateral Cleft Lip

21.1 Cleft Palate Introduction

21.2 Straight Line Repair with Intravelar Veloplasty (IVVP)

21.3 Double Opposing Z-plasty

21.4 Buccal Myomucosal Flap Palate Repair

21.5 Buccal Fat Pad Flap

21.6 Oral Fistula Closure

21.7 Alveolar Clefts

21.8 Orthodontics in Cleft Lip and Palate Management

21.9 Velopharyngeal Dysfunction

21.10 Secondary Deformities of the Cleft Lip, Nose, and Palate

21.11 Cleft and Craniofacial Orthognathic Surgery

22 Pediatric facial fractures

23 Orbital Hypertelorism

24 Craniofacial Clefts

25.1 Craniosynostosis Introduction

25.2 Single Suture Craniosynostosis

25.3 Multisutural Sydromic Craniosynostosis

25.4 Neurosurgical and Developmental Issues in Craniosynostosis

26 Craniofacial Microsomia

27 Idiopathic Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy

28 Robin Sequence

29 Treacher Collins Syndrome

30 Congenital Melanocytic Nevi

31 Vascular Anomalies

32 Pediatric Chest and Trunk Defects

33 Pediatric Tumors

34 Conjoined Twins

VOLUME 4

1 Comprehensive Lower Extremity Anatomy

2 Management of Lower Extremity Trauma

3.1 Lymphedema: Introduction and Editors' Perspective

3.2 Imaging Modalities for Diagnosis and Treatment of Lymphedema

3.3 Lymphovenous Bypass

3.4 Vascularized Lymph Node Transfer

3.5 Debulking Strategies and Procedures: Liposuction of Leg Lymphedema

3.6 Debulking Strategies and Procedures: Excision

4 Lymphatic Reconstruction of the Extremities

4 Lower Extremity Sarcoma Reconstruction

5 Reconstructive Surgery: Lower Extremity Coverage

6.1 Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Lower Extremity Pain

6.2 Lower Extremity Pain: TMR

6.3 Lower Extremity Pain: Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interfaces

7 Skeletal Reconstruction

8 Foot Reconstruction

9.1 Diabetic Foot: Introduction

9.2 Diabetic Foot: Management of Wounds and Considerations in Biomechanics and Amputations

9.3 Diabetic Foot: Management of Vascularity and Considerations in Soft Tissue Reconstruction

10 Comprehensive Trunk Anatomy

11 Reconstruction of the Chest

12 Reconstruction of the Soft Tissues of the Back

13 Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

14.1 Gender Affirmation Surgery: Diagnosis and Management

14.2 Gender Affirmation Surgery, Male to Female: Vaginoplasty

14.3 Gender Affirmation Surgery, Female to Male: Phalloplasty; and Correction of Male Genital Defects

14.4 Breast, Chest Wall, and Facial Considerations in Gender Affirmation

14.4 Correction of Congenital and Acquired Male Genital Defects

15 Reconstruction of Acquired Vaginal Defects

16 Pressure Sores

17 Perineal Reconstruction

18 Acute Management of Burn/Electrical Injuries, including Cold, Chemical, and Exfoliative Injuries

19 Extremity Burn Reconstruction

20 Management of the Burned Face and Neck

21 Pediatric Burns

26 Reconstruction of Male Genital Defects

33 Reconstructive Burn Surgery

34 Cold and Chemical Injury to the Upper Extremity & Management of Patients with Exfoliative Disorders, Epidermolysis Bullosa & TEN

VOLUME 5

1 Preoperative assessment and planning of the aesthetic breast patient

2 Current status of breast implants

3 Primary breast augmentation with implants

4 Autologous Fat Transfer: Fundamental Principles & Application for Breast Augmentation

5 Composite breast augmentation (fat and implants)

6 Augmentation mastopexy

7 Mastopexy with suture threads

8 Mastopexy After Massive Weight Loss

9 Prevention and management of complications following breast augmentation and mastopexy

10 Short Scar Breast Reduction

11 Reduction mammaplasty with inverted T techniques

12 Breast implant illness: Diagnosis and management

13 Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL): Diagnosis and Management

14 A Critical Analysis of Irrigation Solutions in Breast Surgery

15 Imaging and surveillance in patients with breast implants

16 Breast Implant Explantation: Indications and Strategies to Optimize Aesthetic Outcomes

17 Management Strategies for Gynecomastia

18 Management Options for Gender Affirmation Surgery of the Breast

19 Preoperative Evaluation and Planning for Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy

20 Current strategies for partial and total mastectomy

21 Perfusion assessment techniques following mastectomy and reconstruction

22 Introduction to Prosthetic Breast Reconstruction

23 One- and two-stage prepectoral reconstruction with prosthetic devices

24 One-stage Dual Plane Reconstruction with Prosthetic Devices

25 Two-stage Dual Plane Reconstruction with Prosthetic Devices

26 One- and two-stage prosthetic reconstruction with total muscle coverage

27 Skin Reduction Using “Smile Mastopexy” Technique in Breast Reconstruction

28 Management of Complications of Prosthetic Breast Reconstruction

29 Secondary refinement procedures following prosthetic breast reconstruction

30 Introduction to autologous reconstruction with abdominal free flaps

31 Breast reconstruction with the pedicle TRAM flap

32 Breast reconstruction with the latissimus dorsi flap

33 Autologous breast reconstruction with the DIEP flap

34 Autologous breast reconstruction with the Free TRAM flap

35 Autologous reconstruction with the SIEA flap

36 Introduction to autologous reconstruction with alternative free flaps

37 Autologous breast reconstruction with gluteal flaps

38 Autologous breast reconstruction with medial thigh flaps

39 Autologous breast reconstruction with posterior thigh flaps

40 Autologous reconstruction with the lumbar free flap

41 Hybrid breast reconstruction: Flaps and Implants

42 Innervation of autologous flaps

43 Autologous breast reconstruction with stacked flaps

44 Management of complications following autologous reconstruction

45 ERAS protocols in breast surgery: Techniques and outcomes

46 Secondary procedures following autologous reconstruction

47 Introduction to oncoplastic breast surgery

48 Oncoplastic breast reconstruction: Reduction and mastopexy techniques

49 Oncoplastic breast reconstruction: Local flap Techniques

50 Surgical and non-surgical Management of lymphedema

51 Breast reconstruction and radiation therapy: indications, techniques and outcomes

52 Robotic assisted autologous breast reconstruction

53 Total Breast Reconstruction by External Vacuum Expansion (EVE) & Autologous Fat Transfer (AFT)

54 Current options for nipple reconstruction

VOLUME 6
Plastic surgery contributions to hand surgery

1 Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Hand

1 Examination of the Upper Extremity

1 Treatment of the Upper Extremity Amputee

1 The Fingertip, Nail Plate and Nail Bed: Anatomy, Repair and Reconstruction

1 Infections of the Hand

1 Intro

1 Introduction: Plastic Surgery Contributions to Hand Surgery

1 Peripheral Nerve Repair and Reconstruction

1 Embryology, Classification, and Principles of the Management of Congenital Hand Disorders

1 Anatomy and biomechanics of the hand

1 The Ischemic Hand

2 Anesthesia for Upper Extremity Surgery

2 Hand Fractures and Joint Injuries

2 The Spastic Hand

2 Diagnostic Imaging of the Hand and Wrist

2 Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Hand

2 Brachial Plexus Injuries: Adult and Pediatric

2 Examination of the upper extremity

2 Whole Limb Upper Extremity Malformations

2 Upper Extremity Composite Allotransplantation

3 Principles of Internal Fixation as Applied to the Hand and Wrist

3 Fractures and Dislocations of the Wrist and Distal Radius

3 The Stiff Hand

3 Aesthetic Surgery of the Hand

3 Malformations with Abnormal Axis Differentiation Affecting the Hand Plate

3 Diagnostic imaging of the hand and wrist

3 Management of Dupuytren’s Disease

3 Restoration of Upper Extremity Function in Tetraplegia

4 Extensor Tendon Injuries

4 Tendon Transfer for Reconstruction of the Wrist and Hand

4 Malformations with Abnormal Axis Differentiation Affecting the Hand Plate: Unspecified Axis

4 The Painful Hand

4 Anesthesia for upper extremity surgery

4 Osteoarthritis in the Hand and Wrist

4 Hand Therapy

5 Hand Deformations and Dysplasias

5 Replantation and Revascularization

5 Rheumatologic Conditions of the Hand and Wrist

5 Nerve Transfers

5 Principles of internal fixation

6 Reconstructive Surgery of the Mutilated Hand

6 Occupational Hand Disorders

6 Free-functioning Muscle Transfer in the Upper Extremity

6 Nail and fingertip reconstruction

6 Congenital Hand Dysplasias: Tumorous Conditions

7 Congenital Hand Dyplasias: Congenital Contractures

7 Thumb Reconstruction: Non-microsurgical Techniques

7 Hand fractures and joint injuries

7 Nerve Entrapment Syndromes

8 Thumb Reconstruction: Microsurgical Techniques

8 Fractures and dislocations of the wrist and distal radius

8 Growth Considerations in the Pediatric Upper Extremity

9 Flexor tendon injuries and reconstruction

10 Extensor tendon injuries

11 Replantation

12 Reconstructive surgery of the mutilated hand

13 Thumb reconstruction: non microsurgical techniques

14 Thumb reconstruction: microsurgical techniques

15 Infections of the hand

16 Tumors of the hand

17 Dupuytren's disease

18 Osteoarthritis in the hand and wrist

19 Rheumatologic conditions in the hand and wrist

20 Occupational hand disorders

21 Nerve entrapment syndromes

22 Peripheral nerve repair and reconstruction

23 Brachial plexus injuries: Adult and pediatric

24 Tetraplegia

25 Tendon transfers

26 Nerve transfers

27 Free functioning muscle transfer

28 The ischemic hand

29 The spastic hand

30 The Stiff Hand: Prevention and Treatment

31 The Painful hand

32 Congenital hand 1: Embryology, classification and principles

33 Congenital hand 2: Malformations - Whole Limb

34 Congenital hand 3: Malformations – Abnormal Axis differentiation – Hand plate

35 Congenital hand 4: Malformations – Abnormal Axis differentiation – Hand plate - unspecified axis

36 Congenital hand 5: Deformations & Dysplasias

37 Congenital Hand 6: Dysplasias – Tumorous conditions

38 Congenital hand 7: Dysplasias – Congenital contractures

39 Growth considerations in the pediatric upper extremity

40 Treatment of the upper extremity amputee

41 Upper extremity composite allotransplantation

42 Aesthetic surgery for the hand

43 Hand therapy

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 8, 2023
  • Language: English

About the author

PN

Peter C. Neligan

Peter Neligan, MB, FRCS, FRCSC, FAC., is a board-certified plastic surgeon, Director of the Center for Reconstructive Surgery at UW Medical Center - Montlake, and a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at UW School of Medicine. Dr. Neligan specializes in reconstructive surgery including flap surgery, lymphatic surgery, facial re-animation and facial transplantation.. He strives to provide the best care for patients and provide them with the best treatments available. He is excited by new techniques and solutions and always tries to improve every aspect of care. Dr. Neligan has authored four books, 180 scientific papers, 75 book chapters, edited 10 textbooks and is editor-in-chief of the Journal for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is president of the Plastic Surgery Foundation, a member of multiple professional organizations and is heavily involved in UW's Plastic Surgery Training Program
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA