Plastic Surgery In Kangra (A leaf from the history of Plastic Surgery in India)

Plastic surgical operations for cut and deformed noses and torn ears had been practised at Kangra for over 500 years by a family of nose-surgeons locally called Kanghairas. Hakim Dina Nath is the last surviving descendant of the faimily who himself performed these operations till 1937. This paper is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: S. C. Almast
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 1969-12-01
Series:Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0043-1778176