Furlan S, Mazzola R F
Department of Plastic Surgery, Ospedale Borgo Trento, Vezona, Italy.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1995 Sep;96(3):739-43. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199509000-00032.
Alessandro Benedetti (about 1445-1525) was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Padua University. He became famous for the construction of the first anatomical theater ever built, where he personally used to carry out dissections. He published articles on many subjects, first of all on anatomy. His work Anatomice, sive Historia Corporis Humani (Anatomy, or the History of the Human Body), first printed in Venice in 1502, was very popular and influential at that time. Of the many topics treated in the book, one is of special interest to plastic surgeons, i.e., the description of nasal reconstruction by means of a skin flap taken from the arm. The procedure is the same as the one the Branca family practiced in Sicily in the middle of fifteenth century. It is well known that the Brancas kept secret the operation and never published it. Hence, Alessandro Benedetti played an important role in the history of plastic surgery because he first reported in the Western surgical literature the procedure of nasal repair, later called the "Italian" method, almost 100 years before Tagliacozzi's publication in 1597.
亚历山德罗·贝内代蒂（约1445 - 1525年）是帕多瓦大学的解剖学和外科学教授。他因建造了有史以来第一座解剖剧场而闻名，他本人曾在那里进行解剖。他发表了许多主题的文章，首先是关于解剖学的。他的著作《解剖学，即人体的历史》（Anatomice, sive Historia Corporis Humani）于1502年首次在威尼斯印刷，在当时非常受欢迎且具有影响力。在这本书中论述的众多主题中，有一个对整形外科医生特别有吸引力，即通过取自手臂的皮瓣进行鼻再造的描述。该手术方法与15世纪中叶布兰卡家族在西西里岛所施行的相同。众所周知，布兰卡家族对该手术保密，从未发表过。因此，亚历山德罗·贝内代蒂在整形外科史上发挥了重要作用，因为他在1597年塔利亚科齐发表相关内容的近100年前，就在西方外科文献中首次报道了鼻修复手术，该手术后来被称为“意大利”法。
