Abstract

FERNANDEZ GARCIA, A.. Urgent surgical management of facial human bite wounds. Cir. plást. iberolatinoam. [online]. 2011, vol.37, n.3, pp.281-287. ISSN 1989-2055.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0376-78922011000300009.

Bite wounds can create several surgical difficulties in their initial management due to the special facility for infectious complications and the frequent association with extensive tissue damage. However, the immediate repair its desirable, mainly in amputations and flap avulsions. The human bite wounds are also involved by psychological considerations that increase the difficulty of the treatment due to patient´s aesthetic expectations. This article analyzes 7 cases of facial human bites under the epidemiological and clinical points of view. The use of the amputated tissues to obtain skin grafts, condral grafts, and the role of local two stage flaps in the emergency surgery of these wounds are exposed and discussed.

Keywords : Human bite; Facial wound.

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