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History and plastic surgery: systems of recovering our past
Clinics in Plastic Surgery
|October 1, 1983
Abstract:
Plastic surgeons have taken uncommon interest in their past. Systematized approaches toward the collection of historical information have characterized the specialty. Plastic surgery is the only discipline to have compiled a complete bibliography of its world's literature. The Archives maintains an ongoing program of acquisition of the oral, written, and personal memorabilia of the notable leaders and events of plastic surgery.
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