Tsoucalas Gregory, Sgantzos Markos
1 University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
Surg Innov. 2017 Jun;24(3):299-300. doi: 10.1177/1553350617697185. Epub 2017 Mar 8.
Paul of Aegina thrived with his innovative operations, practically creating a kind of a new surgical school. He had deeply believed in human's body perfection introducing a series of cosmetic operations. Among them stood the male's breasts reconstruction in the case of pseudo-gynecomastia. His intervention was replicated by both the western Europeans and the Arabs.
