The Okuda Papers: An Extraordinary But Unfortunately Unrecognized Piece of Work That Could Have Changed the History of Hair Transplantation

    January 2015 in “ Experimental Dermatology ”
    Francisco Jiménez, Richard C. Shiell
    Studysummary This commentary honors Shoji Okuda's pioneering but overlooked work on hair transplantation techniques from 1939, detailing comprehensive experiments that were rediscovered and translated into English decades later.
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