Transplantation in Plastic Surgery

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Carrel’s landmark developments in vascular anastomosis technique (1902) helped thrust transplantation to the forefront of scientific innovation. With further surgical and antirejection advances (Fig. 1), increased orthotopic and heterotopic transplantation to anatomically similar and different recipients sites, respectively, will signal the next revolution in plastic surgery.