title: Immediate reconstruction of gunshot injuries to the face.
abstract: In the past, severe traumatic injuries to the face resulting from shotgun injuries have been managed by primary wound healing followed by little or late reconstruction. This would involve a long period of convalescence by the patient, followed by years of living with his deformity. With recent demands to minimize the patient's suffering and disabilities and to lessen hospitalization costs, a method of immediate reconstruction of such crippling facial injuries using a partially de-epithelialized skin flap has been devised and successfully applied to the patient presented here.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004630:Emergencies; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013997:Time Factors; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000601:surgery*