Skin and soft tissue surgery encompasses procedures addressing conditions affecting the skin and underlying tissues, including infections, tumors, and injuries, with common treatments like incision and drainage, debridement, and skin grafts. This surgical specialty focuses on treating conditions involving the skin, subcutaneous tissues, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissues.
What are the common conditions?
- Infections: Abscesses, cellulitis, necrotizing fasciitis.
- Tumors: Lipomas (fatty tumors), skin cancers, and tumors in muscles or other soft tissues.
- Injuries: Traumatic wounds, burns, and conditions requiring skin grafts.
Few examples of skin & soft tissue surgeries:
A skin graft is a surgical procedure where healthy skin is removed from one area of the body and transplanted to another area to cover damaged or missing skin, often used for burns, large wounds, or after cancer removal. A skin graft involves taking a piece of healthy skin from a donor site and transplanting it to a recipient site where skin is damaged or missing.
I. Skin grafts:
Diabetic foot surgery aims to address infections, ulcers, and deformities, with procedures ranging from debridement and skin grafts to vascular surgery and, in severe cases, amputation, focusing on limb salvage and functional restoration. Amputation involves the surgical removal of a body part, typically a limb or part of a limb, such as an arm, leg, hand, or foot.
