Ординатура / Хирургия / Библиотека им академика М.И. Перельмана / Книга_3600_Библиотеки_им_академика_М_И_Перельмана

(kidney) transplant in 1959 [7]. During the same period, Seidenberg in 1958 performed a free jejunal anastomosis to reconstruct the oesophagus in a dog [8]. This was followed by the rst successful toe to thumb transfer in 1968 by Cobbett [9]. The work by Buncke was revolutionary whereby he performed a free omental ap to cover a scalp defect in 1972 [10]. In the same year, the work of McGregor and Jackson in describing the groin pedicled ap based on a named vessel was an important turning point in reconstruc­tive surgery [11]. A year later, the rst free fasciocutaneous ap (groin) to the foot was successfully transferred by Daniel and Taylor [12]. Further work by Taylor describing the angiosome concept in mapping the human body vasculature had opened the gates to the birth of a new era in reconstruc­tive free ap and perforator microsurgery in 1987 [13]. The focus on microsurgery until this point was to achieve mile­stone achievements in reconstructive principles. While reconstructive microsurgery continued to evolve, the concept of the reconstructive ladder was introduced by Mathes and Nahai in 1982 [14]. An important milestone in reconstructive microsurgery is the introduction of prefabrication and pre­lamination principles. Prefabrication was rst described by Shen in 1982 and then popularised by Pribaz who also inte­grated prelamination concept in 1994 [15, 16]. These con­cepts of reconstruction achieved a pinnacle in composite tissue allotransplantation with the rst successful cases per­formed in France (Table3.1) [17–19].