title: Complex Traumatic Facial Degloving Injury.
abstract: By definition, degloving is detachment of skin and subcutaneous tissue, most often affecting the limbs and extremities and occasionally the scalp. Degloving generally occurs from high-energy trauma. This paper describes a patient of traumatic facial degloving injury. This is an extremely rare condition, as the patient survived despite the risk of imminent death. This patient report addresses the decisions made regarding the emergency management, prevention of necrosis and infection by surgical debridement, and timely repair of the vital soft tissue structures that guided the management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India.
authors.forename: Chandan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jadhav N
authors.forename: Sharad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramdas
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Lingam
authors.forename: Suhas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sateesh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003646:Debridement / Q000379:methods; D000069836:Degloving Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015361:Rhytidoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps