Videoscopic plastic surgery
Meuli-Simmen, C.; Szabò, Z.
Surgical Technology International 3: 515-522
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 1090-3941 PMID: 21319120 Document Number: 426812
Efforts to explore the cavities of the human body date back to Hippocrates, who pioneered "endoscopic" procedures by performing rectoscopy. The following 2400 years brought tremendous technical advances and an understanding of normal and abnormal human anatomy and physiology. In this century, organ transplantation, microsurgery, and most recently fetal surgery have stepped out of the realm of science fiction and into reality.