2017, Number 3
Reconstruction of facial defect caused by dog bites
Quintana DJC, Villareal CN
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 268-275
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ABSTRACT
Dog bites represent a chief complaint that cause a great anxiety in patients, relatives and medical assistance professionals. They constitute a challenge for the establishment of an adequate multidisciplinary management for victims of theses lesions and the correct follow up to the dogs after those aggressions. A case of a 46-year-old, white male patient with positive personal history that goes to the Ciro Redondo General Teaching Hospital in Artemisa complaining of an aggression of a Rottweiler race dog that caused an avulsive laceration of the upper lip that was reconstructed by a primary plasthia in form of V that permitted to obtain an excellent esthetic, psychological and functional result in the patient. The rapid Emergency care and the use of antibiotics contributed to the obtained results according to the evidences in the postoperative follow up until a year after the patient was operated.