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Fascia: A Pragmatic Overview for Surgeons
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Fascia: A Pragmatic Overview for Surgeons

  • Fasel, Jean H.D. Department of Surgery, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
  • DembÉ, Jean-Claude Clinical Anatomy Research Group, Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland and the
  • Majno, Pietro E. Department of Surgery, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2020-6-17
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  • The American Surgeon. - SAGE Publications. - 2007, vol. 73, no. 5, p. 451-453
General Medicine
English The term “fascia” is a very frequently used notion, particularly in an anatomical, surgical, and radiological context. A closer look at the underlying concepts, however, reveals that the denomination is all but a consistent one. It is this use of one and the same term for very different entities that is one of the sources for controversial opinions on fascial structures and their applications in surgical practice. This article summarizes and illustrates examples of structures called fasciae. Considering the impossibility to give a simple, universal definition, we conclude that a precise description and iconographic documentation of the structure under consideration remain mandatory. They should replace the presumably unequivocal, but in fact often nebulous, notion “fascia” in surgical, radiological, and anatomical articles.
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