This accessible, meticulously illustrated atlas provides everything practitioners need to effectively treat wounds and conduct surgical, reconstructive, and cosmetic repairs with minimal scarring

Understanding the subtleties of suture choice and placement often makes the difference between positive and negative patient outcomes. The Atlas of Suturing Techniques: Approaches to Surgical Wound, Laceration, and Cosmetic Repair, Second Edition provides the information and insight readers need to surgically treat a range of wounds and surgical defects—from simple lacerations to complex reconstructive surgery—with the utmost expertise.

Presented in an at-a-glance format, this guide kicks off with chapters on principles of wound management and wound repair, then describes equipment, positioning, key principles, and 75 suture techniques—complete with step-by-step instructions adjacent to drawings and photos of the techniques. Finally, it covers each area of anatomy, guiding the practitioner in which technique to use when and how to modify certain sutures in specific locations.

450 photos and illustrations
Techniques are diagrammatically illustrated and supplemented by online videos
Includes tips and pearls for each technique, as well as the caveats, drawbacks and cautions
Includes new sections on laceration repair and additional suture techniques, including the pin-point pexing, leveling, basting, and three-dimensional continuous suturing techniques, as well as updated approaches to fascial plication retention sutures

Brief TOC
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Surgical Tray
Chapter 3. Suture Materials, Knot Tying, and Postoperative Care
Chapter 4. Laceration Repair
Chapter 5. Suture Techniques for Deeper Structures: The Fascia andDermis
Chapter 6. Suture Techniques for Superficial Structures: TransepidermalApproaches
Chapter 7. Suturing Tips and approaches by Anatomical Location
Chapter 8. Suturing Tips and approaches by Surgical Technique

New Sections:
Chapter 4: Laceration repair
Chapter 4. 40: The modified purse-string suture
Chapter 4. 41: The bell-curve buried suture technique
Chapter 4. 42: The pin-point pexing suture
Chapter 4. 43: The progressive tension suture
Chapter 5. 38: The leveling suture
Chapter 5. 39: The 3-dimensional continuous suturing technique
Chapter 5. 40: The basting suture
Chapter 8: Suturing tips and approaches by surgical technique
Chapter 8. 1: Laceration repair
Chapter 8. 2: Linear excision and repair
Chapter 8. 3: Local flaps
Chapter 8. 4: Skin grafts

Dr. Jonathan Kantor, MD, MSCE, MA, MSt, MSc (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and St. Augustine, Florida) is with the Department of Dermatology, Center for Global Health, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and Florida Center for Dermatology. He is the founding editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology International.