Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthétique
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Ann Chir Plast Esthet · Feb 2005
Review Historical Article[Contribution of French surgeons to reconstructive microsurgery].
The authors report the contribution of French surgeons and particularly the plastic surgeons to the reconstructive microsurgery since 1972. Different domains are reviewed: animal experimentation, anatomical studies, reimplantations, free tissular transfer, free bone transfer, strategic original concept of transfer, free toes transfer, microsurgical reconstruction of malformative hand, free lymphatic transfer, nervous microsurgery, flap prefabrication, allotransplantations and the future of microsurgery. Three societies have the place of honour: the French Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, the Group for Advancement of Microsurgery and the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.
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Ann Chir Plast Esthet · Feb 2005
Review Historical Article[Microsurgery: History of instrumental vascular anastomoses, our experience with eversion-stapling using VCS forceps].
One century, after Carrel in 1906, technics of vascular surgery are the same. After two world wars, peace surgery has been improved by war surgery. Microscopy surgery gave a new way for vascular surgery which became microsurgery with specific instrumentation. ⋯ Ethic comity keeps keys of future. About microvascular anastomoses, many instrumental technics are explored but no-one is better than the classic manual suture. For us, the best instrumental technic is the anastomose with titanium clips VCS((R)) but we only use it in good situation without difficulties.