Perforator Flaps: Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications: 2/e

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The first edition of Perforator Flaps: Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications: 2/e was a bestseller and a success that sold out of its first printing. This latest edition has been restructured to consist of ten new up-to-date chapters and widespread updates on all surviving chapters.

Many new developments have happened in the medical field of the perforator flaps, which includes the usage of local perforator flaps, which in turn includes free-style propeller flaps on top of the distal-based sural flap, which is in effect for the lower farthest point particularly when microsurgical expertise is unavailable. 

The editors of Perforator Flaps by Blondeel, Morris, Hallock, Neligan, the most successful reconstructive surgeons, and pioneers in this area of perforator flap surgery have accumulated a group of world-renowned professionals who debate over perforator anatomy and clinical indications for the usage of these flaps.

Perforator Flaps: Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications: 2/e outlines methods for flap harvest, from the very basic to the extremely advanced. Complementary to the book are four supplemental DVDs that validate the actual operating techniques.

This wide-ranging and exceedingly detailed work includes two volumes and be responsible for an inclusive account of perforator flaps and their usage in reconstructive surgery.

Perforator flaps have increased popularity in these ongoing years in many features of reconstruction and the first chapter of the textbook offers a momentary history of flap surgery, defining the comparatively recent appreciation of the important fact that perforating vessels were adept at sustaining a huge variety of flaps.

The first volume of Perforator Flaps: Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications: 2/e provides a detailed account of flap types, physiology, and anatomy and overall gives an outstanding account of the elementary principles that are underlying perforator flaps.

This second volume of Perforator Flaps by Blondeel, Morris, Hallock, Neligan also comprises chapters on preparation and complications. The latter of these provides an extremely clear account of the main- golden rules- for complication evasion in this kind of surgery.

The remainder of Perforator Flaps by Blondeel, Morris, Hallock, Neligan- is divided into three separate sections that deal with flaps of the neck and head, upper edge, and trunk.

The first section of the second volume of this book deals with flaps of the lower margin that is followed by a decent account of the clinical presentations of a wide range of perforator flaps for reconstruction in a number of sites of the body.

The last part of the second volume is one of the most fascinating sections of the complete book. Titled as the ‘Controversies and Future Directions’, this particular part discovers a number of latest concepts, as well as that of the section of ‘freestyle free flap’, ‘super microsurgery’, and neurocutaneous perforator flaps.

The quality of the demonstration and design is high throughout the book. As it happens with most multi-author textbooks there is perpetually some overlap in the several chapters, but this is just a minor reproach.

There is very little doubt that this two-volume set textbook would be a noteworthy asset to any individual or department that is involved in reconstructive surgery and it is highly recommended.