[Development in the field of plastic surgery].
OBJECTIVE
To summarize the recent development in the plastic and reconstructive surgery.


METHODS
The related literature was reviewed and the main achievements in the field of plastic surgery were summarized.


RESULTS
Plastic and reconstructive surgery was one of the quickly-developed fields in the world medicine, especially aesthetic plastic surgery. Reconstructive plastic surgery and aesthetic plastic surgery would be bind in the future. The unaesthetic hand surgery" was a very important branch of the hand surgery, so not only the function recovery of the hand deformities but also the aesthetic sculpture for the deformed hand should be emphasized. Evaluation on measurement of the facial paralysis reconstruction was a main part of the facial examination. The allotransplantation of the face became more developed. The anatomical research on the cutaneous perforator arteries, vascularisation of the biceps femorismuscle, and the gracilis perforator flap was well performed by the plastic surgeons.


CONCLUSIONS
The quick development has happened in the reparative and reconstuctive surgery and the aesthetic plastic surgery. We must not only pay attention to the organ defect reconstruction and tissue deformity repair but also to the aesthetic sculpture for the deformed parts of the body.
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Department of PLastic Surgery, 9th People's Hospital, Affiliated Medical School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200011, PR China. wangweips@126.com