Jean-Claude Guimberteau M.D is a surgeon, founder of the Institut Aquitain de la Main, Director of Research and Past President (2012) of the French Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Society.
He is a member of the French Hand Society (GEM) and the French Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Society (SOFCPRE).
Throughout his career Dr GUIMBERTEAU has developed an ongoing fascination with the sliding and suppleness of living tissue and anatomical structures such as tendons.
He studied medicine at the Bordeaux University Hospital in 1968-1980. He completed his military service in Benin (Africa) 1973-1974.
New Perspectives on the Organization of Living Tissue and the Ongoing Connective Tissue/Fascia Nomenclature Debate, as Revealed by Intra-Tissue Endoscopy That Provides Real-Time Images During Surgical Procedures
Intra-tissue endoscopy, providing real-time images at all scales, from macroscopic to microscopic, from inside living tissue during surgical procedures, has revealed the existence of a body-wide fibrillar architecture that extends from the surface of the skin to the cell. Different types of cells are housed within this fibrillar architecture and gather together to carry out…