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Microsurgical techniques make it possible to replant severed body
parts, ranging from whole limbs to finger tips, by anatomising divided
blood vessels along with nerves and other injured structures. This
week's clinical review on plastic surgery (p 319) by Johnson and
Whitworth describes these and other advances in surgical techniques, as
well as technical and biological advances and changes in the organisation of plastic surgery as it becomes integrated with other specialties.