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| UDK 617.52-089.844"2005/2014" COBISS.SR-ID 216888588 |
ISSN 0350-2899. - Vol. 40, No. 2 (2015), |
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Original paper Face transplantation - surgery and art 2 in 1 Transplantacija lica – hirurgija i umetnost 2 u 1 Vladimir Davidović, Vladimir Veselinov Opšta bolnica Kikinda |
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| Download in pdf format | Summary: Introduction: Face transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant all or part of the face. The procedure is complex and is indicated in patients when standard reconstructive surgery cannot give the desired effect. Professor Peter Butler first propounded this procedure in 2002. Objective: To show that face transplantation represents humanly applied art. Patients and methods: Between November 2005 and January 2014, 30 face transplantations were performed in 7 different countries. All operations lasted from 8 to 36 hours and were performed by 30 surgeons of different specialties. Patients were postoperatively prescribed a lifelong immunosuppressive therapy. Hospitalisation took on average 10 to 14 days. Results: Complete face transplantation was successfully performed in 40% (12/30), partial in 50% (15/30) and 10% (3/30) died because of complications. the largest number of transplantations were done in France (10), followed by 7 in USA and Turkey, 3 in Spain, 1 in Belgium, China and Poland. The first successful partial face transplantation was performed in France in 2005 on a woman whose face was disfigured by her dog. The first successful full face transplantation was done in Spain in 2010 on a man who accidentally shot himself in the face. The most extensive full face transplantation was performed in USA in 2012 on a patient after an injury by a firearm. The patient was given a new face and a new jaw, teeth and tongue. Conclusion: The patient will neither look like before, nor as his/her donor, but like a combination of the donor and the recipient. The identity of the patient will remain the same. He will still have the same gestures, the same voice and the same look in the eye... That is the art of surgery! Key words: surgery, art, transplantation, face Napomena: kompletan tekst rada na srpskom jeziku Note: full text in Serbian |
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Corresponding Address: Vladimir Davidović, Petefi Šandora 8/11, 23300 Kikinda, Srbija. E-mail: davidovicvladimir@yahoo.com |
Paper received: 3.6.2015 Paper accepted: 5.7.2015 Paper Internet issues: 21.8.2015 |
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