Emergency treatment and cosmetic repair of facial trauma / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To summarize the experience of emergency treatment and cosmetic repair of facial trauma.Methods The clinical materials of 584 wounds from 291 cases of facial trauma,recruited in hospital from January 2010 to August 2012,were summed up retrospectively.The principles of medical aesthetics and plastic and cosmetic surgery were followed.A high pressure douching technique was employed to carry out thorough debridement,but occasion of the debridement did not emphasize with intensive attention.A wound without skin and soft tissue defect was sutured accurately according to tissue zonation with a new suture technique,and the needle distance or side distance was limited in 0.2 cm to 0.3 cm.Otherwise,the wound was repaired by full-thickness skin graft or various flaps according to the repair principle ofrather near than further,rather simple than complicated.Attention was paid to rehabilitation care.Results After debridement,328 wounds were sutured directly,147 wounds were repaired by full-thickness skin grafting and 109 wounds by various flaps.A total of 571 wounds healed on the first stage,and the healing rate reached 97.8％.The wounds were in satisfactory apposition and without obvious cicatrix.Five senses did not appear in malposition and deformity.The other 13 wounds did not heal because of bad taking of skin grafts and flaps or wound splitting.Among them,4 wounds were repaired by second operation,and 9 wounds healed by changing dressings.By means of rehabilitation care,scar hyperplasia and pigmentation appeared slightly in those 13 wounds.A total of 454 wounds from 217 cases were followed up.The results showed good appearance and slight cicatrix hyperplasia,a pigmentation in different degree appeared in 11 wounds covered by skin grafting.In addition,eyebrow excalation,auricle excalation or total lose appeared in 12 cases.Conclusion During treating emergency cases of facial injuries,if an idea cosmetic repair of traumais followed,the theory of aesthetics and the techniques of plastic and cosmetic surgery are fully used,a multiple-discipline cooperation is brought into full play,and a prompt and accurate treatment is put into practice,the aim of cosmetic repair would come true.