REFERENCES:

 

Singer, AJ, Hollander JE, Quinn JV. Evaluation and management of traumatic lacerations. N Engl J Med 1997:337:1142-8 – To access this link please follow the instructions below:

Links to online medical databases such as Proquest, Meditext and the Library's own version of PubMed. Members must login to the RACGP website to access these pages. It is a requirement for our internal statistical purposes that you choose a category (for example, GPET Registrar,) and connect to Proquest through your specific link below.

 

http://www.racgp.org.au/

 

Bell DM. Occupational risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection in healthcare workers: An overview. Am J Med. 1997;102(5B):9-15

 

Federal Register  1-18-01

 

Donald E.Fry, MD., F.A.C.S., Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, New Mexico. Absorbable Versus Non-absorbable Sutures in Surgery.

 

Wound Closure Manual. Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson company.

 

www.prodigy.nhs.uk/guidance.asp?gt=Lacerations

 

Basal Cell Carcinoma – PDF

 

Non-melanoma skin cancer in Australia: the 2002 national survey and trends since 1985

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/184_01_020106/sta10828_fm.html

Skin excisions in Australian general practice – AFP Vol 35, No. 7 July 2006

http://www.racgp.org.au/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/AustralianFamilyPhys/2006issues/20060705/20060705beach.htm

 

Wound repair in children – AFP Vol 35, No. 7 July 2006

http://www.racgp.org.au/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/AustralianFamilyPhys/2006issues/20060705/20060705osullivan.htm

Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Cutaneous Melanoma

http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/cp68syn.htm

 

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Non-melanoma skin cancer: Guidelines for treatment and management in Australia

http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/synopses/cp87syn.htm

 

Dysplastic melanocytic naevus syndrome

http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/200608/10451

 

The following chapters have been reproduced with permission from Mr Frank Kimble and are taken from:
Reader in Plastic, Reconstructive and Maxillofacial Surgery

Discipline of Surgery

University of Tasmania

Frank Kimble

Hobart 2001

 

Chapter 7 – ‘Benign Skin Lesions’

 

 

Chapter 8 – ‘Cutaneous malignancies’

 

 

Chapter 9 – ‘Cutaneous malignancies - melanoma’