RECONSTRUCTIVE PLASTIC SURGERY

RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

While training as a plastic surgery specialist at the University of Antioquia, Colombia, I received extensive training in treating body surface, face, and hand alterations, including an extensive component in cosmetic surgery. All these learnings are complementary and allow me to carry out my surgical work safely and comprehensively.

Reconstructive surgeries include adults and children after trauma, burns, wound management, facial and hand fractures, skin cancer treatment, and reconstruction after breast cancer or congenital abnormalities after birth or acquired by different conditions or diseases.

Evaluation and management of congenital and acquired diseases of the wrist and hand, acute phase and post-trauma reconstruction of skin, tendon, nerve, bone, joints, and wound defects.

Evaluation and management of acute facial trauma, soft tissue and facial bone fractures, treatment of scars, and acquired and congenital deformities.

Evaluation, surgical and reconstructive management of benign and malignant skin lesions: lipomas, nevus, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.

Multidisciplinary treatment in patients with breast cancer to perform both immediate and delayed breast reconstruction depends on the case with different techniques described using the patient’s own tissues or alloplastic materials such as breast implants.

Comprehensive and multimodal management of burns and scars in the acute phase, advanced healing and associated deformities.

Reconstructive plastic surgery.

Wound defects reconstruction.

Plastic surgery treats body alterations and performs procedures for various purposes; among other, plastic surgeons perform reconstructive surgeries, which mobilize tissues from one area to another, called flaps and grafts.