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Paul of Aegina (ca 625-690 ad), Reconstructing Male Gynecomastia
Gregory Tsoucalas1, Markos Sgantzos1
11 University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
Surgical Innovation
|April 13, 2017
Abstract:
Paul of Aegina thrived with his innovative operations, practically creating a kind of a new surgical school. He had deeply believed in human's body perfection introducing a series of cosmetic operations. Among them stood the male's breasts reconstruction in the case of pseudo-gynecomastia. His intervention was replicated by both the western Europeans and the Arabs.