Contemporary Approach to Lower Extremity Reconstruction, An Issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery The Clinics: Surgery Series

This issue Clinics in Plastic Surgery, guest edited by Dr. Lee L.Q. Pu, is dedicated to Contemporary Approach to Lower Extremity Reconstruction. Topics in this issue include-but are not limited to-locoregional flaps, free flaps, propeller flaps, perforator-plus flaps, local free-style perforator flaps, free-style free perforator flaps, anterolateral thigh perforator flap, superficial circumflex iliac artery perforator flap, medial sural artery perforator flap, optimal timing of traumatic lower extremity reconstruction, management of Gustilo Type IIIC injuries, orthoplastic approach, functional restoration, lower extremity reconstruction after soft tissue sarcoma resection, super-microsurgery, free tissue transfers to lower extremity, and lower extremity reconstruction for limb salvage.

Dr Lee Pu is an established professor of plastic surgery based at UC Davis, California. Dr Pu is a published author having two breast surgery titles where he is lead editor and also having worked on Elsevier Clinics titles as well as with other publishers. He is an internationally renowned expert on many areas of reconstructive surgery including soft -tissue reconstruction of the lower extremity. He has served more than 40 visiting professorships and given more than 110 invited lectures and keynote presentations, both nationally and internationally.