Editorial comment on special Belgian issue

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It is fitting that our second Special Issue of the European Journal of Plastic Surgery should come from Belgium. The Belgian Society now gives the image of young, innovative plastic surgeons who seem to lack fear in free-tissue transfer and who have a constant flow of new ideas and concepts. They may have always been like this, as I suspect when I read Prof. Matton’s contribution, but I also think that it reflects the enthusiasm, the intellectual curiosity, and the feeling of excitement and adventure that many of the young Europeans have brought to the world of plastic surgery. Excellent research is being produced, and the quality and innovations in microsurgery are truly outstanding. There is a refreshing mixture of papers on hand surgery, microsurgery, facial reanimation, phalloplasty, breast reconstruction, prominent ears, limb amputations, free flaps in the elderly, pigmented lesions, history, sarcomas, neurofibromas, dog bites, and to round everything off, once more Patrick Tonnard and his MACS lift. …