Today's medical knowledge. Evolution of data exchange between tradition and globalization.

The authors historically review bibliographic research concepts and define globalization in time. Moreover, recent free online data exchange is important in terms of medical progress, scientific updating and patient-care improving. In the author's opinion, data globalization is favoring medical knowledge flow even more.

[Recent progress in the treatment of lower limb defects].

Technological and reconstructive surgical procedures improvments are limiting demolitive interventions on the lower limb for common pathologies and traumatology. From 1999 to 2002, 32 men and 14 women, from 18 to 54 years-old, were admitted at the Operative Unit of Plastic Surgery of ASL RMH. They were grouped according to cause and site of extremity defects and different surgical techniques.