The successes of composite grafting of fingertips in the early years of plastic surgery have been repeated in the few studies of this treatment which have been reported during the last 50 years. The early and recent history of this subject are reviewed in the light of the increasingly pessimistic view of composite graft replacement of fingertips taken by recent reviewers.
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