PLASTIC SURGERY

About Department

Department of Plastic Surgery comprises of 5 full-time consultants having varied areas of expertise. It caters to variety of patients requiring trauma reconstruction, hand surgery, cleft care, post oncological resection, paediatric plastic surgery, burns management and aesthetic surgery.

OPD is a busy place with an attached dressing room which also doubles up as a minor procedure room. Procedures like CLW suturing,arch bar removal,excision of lipoma,sebaceous cyst, intralesional steriod injections are done on OPD basis.

The routine operating list includes surgeries like skin grafting for various types of wounds, post oncological reconstructions with local flaps, regional flaps and microvascular free flaps, creation of arteriovenous fistulae for haemodialysis, post CABG sternal dehiscence, maxillofacial trauma, cleft lip and palate repair as well as emergencies like wound exploration for hand trauma with tendon repairs,hand fractures, nerve and vessel repairs.

The department is well-equipped with special instruments for microsurgery, hand surgery, maxillofacial surgery, hand held Doppler, nerve stimulator and state-of-the-art microscope.

Procedures / Surgeries performed in dept:

General Plastic Surgery:

• Skin grafting
• CLW repair
• Scar revision
• Wound debridement
• Post CABG sternal dehiscence

Head and neck cancer reconstruction:

• Free radial artery forearm fasciocutaneous flap
• Free anterolateral thigh fasciocutaneous flap
• Free osteocutaneous fibula flap
• Pedicled pectoralis major myocutaneous flap
• Pedicled deltopectoral flap
• Pedicled forehead flap

Breast reconstruction:

• Pedicled latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap
• Pedicled transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap
• Free deep inferior epigastric artery flap

Aesthetic Surgery:

• Liposuction
• Abdominoplasty
• Breast augmentation
• Breast reduction
• Gynaecomastia correction
• Rhinoplasty
• Facelift
• Arm and buttock lift
• Lipofilling
• Hair transplant

Paediatric plastic surgery:

• Cleft lip and palate repair
• Reconstruction for microtia
• Hypospadias repair

Hand surgery:

• Congenital hand problems
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Trigger finger
• Tenosynovitis
• Hand fractures
• Fingertip injuries
• Replant surgeries
• Tendon repairs
• Tendon transfers
• Nerve and vessel repairs

Trauma:

• Maxillofacial trauma
• Limb trauma
• Hand trauma
• CLW repairs

Microvascular surgery

• A.V.Fistula creation
• Free flaps
• Replantation

Burns:

Acute Burn management

• Kollagen application
• Tangential excision
• Skin grafting
• Allograft application

Post Burn Sequelae

• Neck contracture - Release with Z- plasty, SSG, flaps
• Hand contracture - Release, Z-plasty, flaps, K-wire fixation, splintage
• Correction of microstomia, ectropion of lips
• Post burn alopecia

Prominent equipments:

• Outpatient & Inpatient services
• 24 hours multispecialty trauma unit
• Ultramodern Operation Theatre with central Air conditioning
• Operating microscope
• Negative pressure wound therapy
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• LASER

Past Conference or Event Details:

ISSHCON 2013/Hand Symposium 37th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Surgery of the Hand 20,21,22 September 2013, Pune

Educational Content:

Running DNB Plastic Surgery for last 5 Years Course 2009-2014

Direct Telephone/Fax/EMail

Telephone No. 020-4915 3110 or
4915 3111 or 
4915 3112 or 
4915 3113
Email: plasticsurgerydmh@gmail.com