title: [Scissors. Instruments which cut and dissect].
abstract: Scissors are the unquestionable dissection tool; all other surgical tools retire, hold back or separate structures and tissues so that one lone scissors complies with the main function during an operation. However the ideal scissors, designed for general cutting tasks and dissection in any place in the body does not exist; proof of this is the enormous variety of scissors available to surgeons.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario Principe de Asturias, Madrid.
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Illana Esteban
mesh_terms: D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history*