ABSTRACT
Modern plastination at the Plastinarium begins with formalin-preserved cadavers and consists of five distinct stages: dissection, dehydration and defatting, vacuum-forced impregnation, positioning, and curing. In order to have the plastinates in time for the Fifth International Fascia Research Congress in Berlin, Germany, they would need to be completed by November 2018, which was barely enough time to complete the plastination and positioning process, let alone enough time to first create proof-of-concept specimens. Despite the obstacles it posed to the defatting process, it was important to include superficial fascia in the project design as a recognized tissue in the fascial system. Two different approaches were employed to test the defatting process on the superficial fascia of the abdomen, which was divided into two pieces, a left and a right half.
