Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1
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What Is a Flap?
William vickaraged was a sailor who had been burned during the battle of jutland. His eyelids were flipped inside out, so he couldn't even close his eyes at night. He adapted a procedure from a dutch surgeon called an epithelial inlay. This allowed him to reconstruct something as delicate and as technical as eyelids.
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