title: History offhand: a golfer's needleholder.
abstract: Sir Harold D. Gillies was the father of modern plastic surgery. Apart from being an extraordinary surgeon, he was an innovator of surgical instruments and an outstanding golfer. He adopted Kocher's suture scissors and converted them for needleholding. The authors believe that the surgeon Gillies adapted this needleholder to fit his golfer's hand.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery at the Slotervaartziekenhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. rbkarim@xs4all.nl
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Karim
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hage
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D006055:Golf; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000266:history; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history