Annales de chirurgie plastique et esthétique
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Radiation burn is a determinist effect of localized irradiation. The lesion is in good correlation with absorbed dose. Radiation burn is different from thermal burn. ⋯ The new therapeutic approach combines surgery and cellular therapy with local administration of autologous mesenchymal stem cells. From 5 years, cell therapy have been an adjuvant treatment of surgery. This association is a therapeutic innovation, it's now the recommendation for conservative surgery of this very serious radiation burn.
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This article traces some of the developments in the innovation of microsurgery since the first free flaps in the 1970s. French reconstructive surgeons contribution to microsurgery and composite tissue allotransplantation was particularly important. Robotic assisted microsurgery and microgravity represent some of the latest innovations.