[The value of a high-frequency bistoury in plastic surgery].

In contrast with the usual electric spark gap scalpels which burn and carbonise tissues, making them unsuitable for section or fine dissection, Surgitron, which uses high frequency radio waves, cuts and coagulates without excessive heating and without carbonisation. It possesses 4 types of current, all with adjustable power levels: section, section-coagulation, coagulation and fulguration. It can be used with ordinary scalpel blades or with the electrodes supplied with the apparatus. It can be used in all stages of the operation: skin incision, fine dissection, coagulation and allows an appreciable gain in time combined with great comfort for the user and for the patient with a reduction in postoperative oedema.