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Congenital Thoracic Wall Deformities

Abstract

Outcome documentation and course observation of plastic surgical interventions are described often circumstantially; however, in addition to the backup of photos and in functional reconstructions with movies, these interventions can be documented comprehensively. For decades already reconstructive surgeons rely on photography as a means for documentation of patients, assessment of results, teaching, and publications. Nowadays, with the evolution of digital depiction many tasks in storage, post-processing, and visualization are made much easier, thus standardization is a requisite for academic research [1] and to obtain informed consent from patients. Usually patients show preference to the use of non-identifiable photographs, as long as they serve for medical documentation, teaching or presentations on meetings, and congresses, whereas they do less accept distribution of pictures on the Internet [2, 3]. Therefore, also a written consent, containing the detailed purposes of taking photographs should be obtained from all patients before any photography.

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  1. Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

    Anton H. Schwabegger MS, MSc, Asso. Prof.

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Schwabegger, A.H., Rieger, M., Semenitz, B., Rumpold, G., Lair, M. (2011). Diagnostics. In: Schwabegger, A.H. (eds) Congenital Thoracic Wall Deformities. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99138-1_3

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