title: The caissons and the foundation.
abstract: The article and photographs cover a period of contemporary history spanning fifty years. The author writes from his own experiences with plastic surgeons he met, knew, and worked with. Several of the photographs are the last pictures taken before the subjects' deaths. The brevity of the verbal portraits is governed by space in the journal. Other than microsurgery, craniofacial surgery, free flaps, and lately, liposuction, most of what we do now was known and practiced decades ago.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of California Medical School, Irvine 92717.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lamont
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000266:history*