title: Videoscopic plastic surgery.
abstract: Efforts to explore the cavities of the human body date back to Hippocrates, who pioneered "endoscopic" procedures by performing rectoscopy. The following 2400 years brought tremendous technical advances and an understanding of normal and abnormal human anatomy and physiology. In this century, organ transplantation, microsurgery, and most recently fetal surgery have stepped out of the realm of science fiction and into reality.
authors.affiliation: Attending Staff, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Research Fellow, Microsurgical Laboratory, Davies Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meuli-Simmen
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Szabò