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(Michel Salmon Anatomic Studies.) Edited by G. Ian Taylor and Rosa M. Razaboni. 307 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Quality Medical, 1994. $90. ISBN 0-942219-27-9.

Over the past 25 years there has been an explosion of new techniques and procedures in plastic and reconstructive surgery. This progress is due to an improved understanding of the blood supply to the tissues of the body, and it has allowed the rapid and complex reconstruction of traumatic and ablative wounds. Successful reconstruction with vascularized muscle and cutaneous flaps, replantation, and microsurgical free-tisssue transplantation depends on detailed knowledge of the network of axial blood vessels in the body and their direct contributions to muscle, bone, and skin. This need has prompted a return to the cadaver laboratory and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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