SECTION 1: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF
CUTANEOUS SURGERY
1. SKIN: BASIC ASPECTS 3
KC Nischal, Anitha Raghunath, BM Shashi Kumar, Anirudha Gulanikar
2. APPLIED SURGICAL ANATOMY IN RELATION TO FACIAL REJUVENATION 10
Mukta Sachdev, Sunaina Hameed
3. SETTING UP A DERMATOSURGERY UNIT 33
HM Omprakash
4. DISINFECTION AND STERILIZATION 44
Uday Kelkar
5. WOUND HEALING 62
CR Srinivas, C Shanmuga Sekar
6. WOUND MANAGEMENT AND DRESSINGS 68
Manas Chatterjee, Umashankar Nagaraju
7. UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS FOR A DERMATOSURGEON 94
YS Marfatia, Smriti Naswa
8. BASIC DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY INSTRUMENTS 117
Anirudha Gulanikar
9. WOUND CLOSURE MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES IN
DERMATOSURGERY 125
Umashankar Nagaraju
10. LOCAL ANESTHESIA 153
KC Nischal, Anitha Raghunath, Mysore Venkataram
11. HEMOSTASIS IN DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY 177
T Salim
12. RESUSCITATION IN DERMATOSURGICAL EMERGENCIES 187
Murali Chakravarthy, Geetha Muniraju
13. ANTIBACTERIAL AGENTS IN DERMATOSURGERY 195
Pradyumna Vaidya, S Ragunatha
14. ANALGESICS AND ANXIOLYTICS IN DERMATOSURGERY 203
Shyamanta Barua, Umashankar Nagaraju
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SECTION 2: STANDARD CUTANEOUS
SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
15. SIMPLE EXCISIONS 213
Vinay Saraf, S Ragunatha
16. SIMPLE DERMATOSURGICAL PROCEDURES: BIOPSY, CURETTAGE AND
CHEMICAL CAUTERY 227
Dhanashree Bhide
17. ELECTROSURGERY 245
Rashmi Sarkar, Vivek Nair
18. RADIOFREQUENCY IN DERMATOLOGY 255
Yashwant V Tawade
19. CRYOTHERAPY 261
Sujay Khandpur
20A. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CUTANEOUS CYSTS AND LIPOMAS 274
Vinay Saraf
20B. MELANOCYTIC NEVI: TREATMENT MODALITIES 280
S Sacchidanand, Tina Ramachander
21. FLAPS FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION 289
Vishwanath Jigjinni
22. SCAR REVISION 304
R Raghunatha Reddy, BM Shashi Kumar
23. DERMABRASION 317
Satish S Savant, Sandeep Savant, Behroze Deputy
SECTION 3: SPECIAL CUTANEOUS
SURGICAL PROCEDURES
24A. OVERVIEW OF VITILIGO SURGERY 327
Mysore Venkataram, Koushik Lahiri
24B. AUTOLOGOUS MINI PUNCH GRAFTING IN VITILIGO 334
Koushik Lahiri
24C. SUCTION BLISTER ROOF GRAFTING 344
HC Hanumanthaiah
24D. THIN SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFTING FOR VITILIGO 351
Niti Khunger, Rajat Kandhari
24E. EPIDERMAL NONCULTURED CELL SUSPENSION IN VITILIGO 360
Munish Paul
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24F. CULTURED MELANOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION 366
Kanika Sahni, Davinder Parsad
24G. PHOTOTHERAPY WITH GRAFTING PROCEDURES IN VITILIGO 371
Imran Majid
24H. COMPLICATIONS OF VITILIGO SURGERY 375
Niti Khunger, Alka Goel
24I. OTHER METHODS OF TREATING VITILIGO AND TIPS FOR VITILIGO SURGERY 383
R Raghunatha Reddy, Dilip Kacchawa
25A. OVERVIEW OF ACNE SCARRING 386
Anil Abraham
25B. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF ACNE SCARS 392
T Salim, Ragini Ghiya
25C. MANAGEMENT OF ACNE SCARS—LASERS 407
Imran Majid
25D. APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF POST-ACNE SCARS 412
BS Chandrashekar, Mysore Venkataram
26A. MOHS MICROGRAPHIC SURGERY 419
Venura Samarasinghe, Vishal Madan
26B. MELANOMA 428
Firas Al-Niami, Vishal Madan
27A. VARICOSE VEINS: AN OVERVIEW 440
S Sacchidanand, BS Shivaswamy, Aniketh Venkataram
27B. SCLEROTHERAPY 452
S Sacchidanand, TS Nagesh
27C. SCLEROTHERAPY FOR VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS 463
Sujay Khandpur
28. LEG ULCERS 472
R Jayashree, Reena Rai, CR Srinivas
29. SURGERY OF NAILS 484
Sushil Tahiliani
30. KELOID AND HYPERTROPHIC SCAR 498
Sangeeta Varma, Somesh Gupta
31. CLEFT EARLOBE REPAIR 514
P Jagadish, R Raghunatha Reddy
32. HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA 522
M Kumaresan
Contributors / xix
33. CIRCUMCISION 530
SDN Guptha, Vishal Chugh
34. LEPROSY SURGERY 534
Sanjay Sane
SECTION 4: ESTHETIC PROCEDURES
35A. AGING SKIN 545
Anil Ganjoo
35B. APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF AGING SKIN 550
Anitha Raghunath, Niti Khunger, Mysore Venkataram
36. COSMECEUTICALS FOR AGING SKIN 555
TS Vidya
37. MICRODERMABRASION 564
Silonie Sachdeva
38. MICRONEEDLING 572
Jaishree Sharad
39. GLYCOLIC ACID PEELS 580
Niti Khunger, Dipali Taneja, Monica Khunger
40A. NON-GLYCOLIC ACID PEELS—SALICYLIC ACID AND
TRICHLOROACETIC ACID PEELS 587
Anitha Raghunath, Mysore Venkataram, Niti Khunger
40B. NEWER SUPERFICIAL PEELS 592
Jaishree Sharad
41A. COSMETIC USES OF BOTULINUM TOXIN 604
MK Shetty, Mary Thomas
41B. NON-COSMETIC DERMATOLOGICAL INDICATIONS OF BOTULINUM TOXIN 621
Mukta Sachdev, Rachana Shilpakar
42A. SOFT TISSUE AUGMENTATION: HYALURONIC ACID FILLERS 634
Maya Vedamurthy
42B. NON-HYALURONIC ACID FILLERS 646
Jaishree Sharad
43A. FOLLICULAR UNIT HAIR TRANSPLANTATION 656
Mysore Venkataram, Narendra Patwardhan
43B. NEWER METHODS IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION 669
Mysore Venkataram
43C. NON-HAIR TRANSPLANTATION METHODS OF SURGICAL HAIR RESTORATION 678
Sandeep Sattur
xx / ACS(I) Textbook on Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery
44. LIPOSUCTION 687
Jayashree Venkataram, Mysore Venkataram
45. FAT TRANSPLANTATION 700
Lakshyajit D Dhami, Ajay R Hariani
46A. PERIORBITAL REJUVENATION 714
Srilatha Trasi
46B. BLEPHAROPLASTY AND PERIORBITAL SURGICAL REJUVENATION 721
Milind N Naik
47. MELASMA AND ITS ESTHETIC MANAGEMENT 736
Biju Vasudevan
48. COSMETIC PROBLEMS OF NAILS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT 744
Mukta Sachdev, Swati Mogra
SECTION 5: LASER, LIGHTS AND
OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
49. HISTORY AND PHYSICS OF LASERS: DERMATOLOGIC 751
LASERS AND THEIR EVOLUTION
HM Omprakash
50. SETTING UP A LASER THEATER 763
Niteen V Dhepe
51. LASER AND LIGHT-ASSISTED HAIR REMOVAL 771
Rajesh M Buddhadev, Vaishalee Kirane
52. CARBON DIOXIDE LASER 787
DS Krupa Shankar, MR Chakravarthi
53. LASERS FOR PIGMENTED LESIONS AND TATTOOS 797
Sanjeev Aurangabadkar
54. LASERS FOR VASCULAR LESIONS 814
M Kumaresan, CR Srinivas
55. FRACTIONAL LASERS 833
Mysore Venkataram, Anitha Raghunath
56. NONABLATIVE LASERS, LIGHTS AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES IN DERMATOLOGY 841
Mukta Sachdev, Sunaina Hameed
SECTION 6: MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
57. PATIENT SATISFACTION IN ESTHETIC DERMATOLOGY AND SURGERY 855
Bhanu Prakash
Contributors / xxi
58. PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ESTHETIC SURGERY 860
EN Abdul Latheef, Prabhakar M Sangolli
59. EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN CUTANEOUS AND ESTHETIC SURGERY 865
Rashmi Sarkar, Sidharth Sonthalia, Mysore Venkataram
60. ACCREDITATION 871
Bhanu Prakash
61. MEDICOLEGAL ISSUES IN ESTHETIC SURGERY 875
KH Satyanarayana Rao
62. CLINICAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN SURGICAL AND ESTHETIC DERMATOLOGY 883
KT Ashique, Feroze Kaliyadan
63. TELEDERMATOLOGY IN ESTHETIC SURGERY 894
Jayakar Thomas, Parimalam Kumar
64. TIPS FOR SETTING UP CLINICS AND ESTABLISHING PRACTICE 905
Apratim Goel, S Murugusundaram, Niteen V Dhepe
65. DERMATOSURGERY MADE EASY—TIPS FOR BEGINNERS 912
Sharad Mutalik, Ganesh S Pai, Suresh Talwar
66. SUPPLIERS DETAILS FOR LASER MACHINES, DERMATOSURGICAL
AND ESTHETIC EQUIPMENT/PRODUCTS 927
Suresh Talwar, Ankur Talwar, Rachita Narad, Kshama Talwar
GLOSSARY OF LASER TERMINOLOGY
HM Omprakash 931
INDEX 935