Current Issue January 2012 | Vol. 39, No. 1

Current Topic

Skin: Discourse on Emerging Science and Techniques

The compilation of articles in this issue is intended to share the broad array of clinical and scientific research underway on skin: its physiology, architecture, behavior, and the potential and challenges in engineering it from tissue and cells.

Top scientists, researchers, and clinicians from Europe, Australia, Asia, and the United States are represented in this selection of articles intended for plastic surgeons to follow the progress of new research and to make clinical use with the current state of the art of skin knowledge – aging, resurfacing, flaps, and regeneration.

“Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?”