Exhibition celebrates groundbreaking plastic surgery in second world war  

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Kmietowicz, Zosia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7632 (Dec. 2007), page 1230.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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When he set off to fight for his country in the second world war, more than 60 years ago, it’s unlikely that Bill Foxley ever imagined that his photograph would end up centre stage in an exhibition at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Mr Foxley, together with other RAF servicemen, received pioneering reconstructive surgery after burns injuries he sustained during the war. An exhibition of portraits by Nicola Kurtz of the surviving members of the Guinea Pig Club, which is what the group called themselves, can be seen at the Hunterian Museum until the end of the year. The airmen were treated by the pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe. The first photograph shows Mr Foxley undergoing a pedicle graft, during which the skin being donated remains attached to the donor site until the blood supply is established at the recipient site; the second as he is today. Hamish . . .

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