The legacy of Capt. Gino Pieri: a forgotten Italian contribution to the study of cutaneous blood supply during World War I.
Among the many scientists who studied the cutaneous blood supply, Gino Pieri, an Italian Army surgeon operating during World War I, deserves attention. During those times, amputations were frequent, and flaps used to cover stumps were often inadequately designed and became necrotic, because of poor knowledge of the skin's blood supply. Pieri solved the problem after drawing a perforator map of human body skin, injecting the main arteries with methylene blue dye. His flaps were mainly designed along the course of what Ian Taylor would call "source" arteries, to capture the greatest perforators.
Micali
Giovanni
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Divisions of Plastic Surgery, Cannizzaro Hospital and La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Scuderi
Nicolò
N
Ribuffo
Diego
D
Terracina
Francesco Saverio Madonna
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D000715:Anatomy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008887:Military Medicine; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014857:Warfare