Endoscopy in Plastic Surgery
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- Advantages: safety, effectiveness, small scars, low morbidity, reduced pain, shorter hospitalization + incapacity for work, reduced incidence of infectious complications and hematomas.
- Disadvantages: initial costs, contraindications for endoscopic procedures.
- Reconstructive surgery: subsurface tissue manipulation from a remote approach with minimal scarring; placement of tissue expanders; muscle flap, fascia, vein/nerve graft acquisition; treatment syndrom canalis carpi
- Aesthetic surgery: minimization of scars; forehead lift + brow lift (lowering of the forehead and eyebrows), supplement to face lift + neck lift, augmentation mammaplasty, abdominoplasty etc.
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- BURGHER, Jan. Introduction to Plastic Surgery. 1. edition. Prague : Charles University in Prague - Karolinum Publishers, 2005. 125 pp. ISBN 80-246-1150-3.
