Facing up is an act of dignity: Lessons in elegance addressed to the polemicists of the first human face transplant

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 803-806

  Lengelé, Benoît ^b   Testelin, Sylvie ^b   Cremades, Sophie ^b   Devauchelle, Bernard ^a  

^a North Hospital   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; FACE SURGERY; PATIENT RIGHT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

FACE; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 34547887998     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000271097.22789.79     Document Type: Editorial

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