Francis Burian--founder of the treatment of facial clefts in Czechoslovakia
Fára, M.; Burian, F.
Acta Chirurgiae Plasticae 34(4): 185-189
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5423 PMID: 1284835 Document Number: 402468
Prof. F. Burian, the founder of Czechoslovak Plastic Surgery, belonged to the world-wide scale among the most prominent pioneers of this field. His main interest and professional concern was devoted to the problems of facial clefts. The present communication reviews the gradual development of surgical repair of cleft lip and palate from the early twenties to the late fifties at the Department for Plastic Surgery in Prague, headed by Prof. F. Burian.