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BARD COSMAN, 1930-1983.
Plastic surgery case reports, 1960-1962.
.5 cubic feet (2 boxes)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Bard Cosman, plastic surgeon, was born Nov. 10, 1930 in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was educated at Erasmus Hall High School, Columbia College (A.B. 1952), and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D. 1955). He completed surgical residencies at Roosevelt and Presbyterian Hospitals and did military service in the U.S. Navy, 1961-63, during which time he was Chief of the Plastic Surgery Service at St. Alban's Naval Hospital.

In 1963 Cosman returned to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center where he spent the rest of his career. He eventually rose to become an Attending Surgeon at Presbyterian Hospital and first Professor of Clinical Surgery in Anatomy and Cell Biology and first Jerome P. Webster Distinguished Professor of Plastic Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He was a gifted sculptor and had numerous shows of his works in New York City. Cosman was a member of the Society of Animal Artists and the Salmagundi Club and served as president of the New York Physicians Art League. He died in Tenafly, N.J. on August 14, 1983.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:
Case reports submitted by Bard Cosman for his board certification in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Each report includes case notes as well as photographs and drawings of the operations. Cases include operations for cleft palate, cleft lip, burns, congenital abnormalities, carcinoma, malignancy and rhinoplasty. All of the operations were performed at St. Alban's Naval Hospital, Queens, N.Y.

ACCESS:
Patients are not identified by name in the reports, but lack of consent forms requires that photographs not be published.

PROVENANCE:
Gift of Cosman's son, Bard C. Cosman, M.D., 2000 (acc.#2000.11.09)

Box 1

  1. Statement

  2. Index

  3. Case No. 1 Category: Cleft Lip, Primary. Diagnosis: Left Complete Prealveolar and Postalveolar Cleft Lip and Palate

  4. Case No. 2 Category: Cleft Lip, Secondary. Diagnosis: Residual Deformity of Lip and Nose: Mandibular Prognathism Post-Repair of Cleft Lip and Palate

  5. Case No. 3 Category: Cleft Palate, Primary. Diagnosis: Left Complete Cleft Palate

  6. Case No. 4 Category: Cleft Palate, Secondary. Diagnosis: Velo-Pharyngeal Insufficiency

  7. Case No. 5 Category: Traumatic Defect Requiring Reconstructive Surgery, a) Face and Neck Diagnosis: Burn Scars of Face, Scalp, Ears, and Hands

  8. Case No. 6 Category: Traumatic Defect Requiring Reconstructive Surgery, a) Head and Neck Diagnosis: Orocutaneous Fistula

  9. Case No. 7 Category: Traumatic Defect Requiring Reconstructive Surgery, a) Head Diagnosis: Traumatic Arteriovenous Fistula of Forehead

  10. Case No. 8 Category: Traumatic Defect Requiring Reconstruction, b) Extremity Diagnosis: Crush and Gangrene, Left Leg; Compound, Comminuted Fracture, Tibia and Fibula, Left Leg

  11. Case No. 9 Category: Burn. Diagnosis: Chemical Burn of Scalp, Face, and Back

  12. Case No. 10 Category: Burn. Diagnosis: Burn of Left Face with Partial Upper and Lower Left Eyelid Loss

  13. Case No. 11 Category: Facial Bone Fractures. Diagnosis: Compound Comminuted Fracture of Maxilla; Compound Comminuted Fracture of Mandible; Bilateral Subcondylar Mandibular Fractures

  14. Case No. 12 Category: Esthetic Operation. Diagnosis: Bilateral Protruding Ears

  15. Case No. 13 Category: Esthetic Operation. Diagnosis: Scar of Lip and Nasal Deformity Post-Repair of Cleft Lip

Box 2
  1. Case No. 14 Category: Esthetic Operation. Diagnosis: Malunion of Nasal Fracture

  2. Case No. 15 Category: Esthetic Operation. Diagnosis: Right Unilateral Gynecomastia

  3. Case No. 16 Category: Esthetic Operation. Diagnosis: Saddle-Nose Deformity

  4. Case No. 17 Category: Plastic Surgery of Hand. Diagnosis: Dupuytren's Contracture

  5. Case No. 18 Category: Plastic Surgery of the Hand. Diagnosis: Massive Hand Trauma

  6. Case No. 19 Category: Plastic Surgery of the Hand. Diagnosis: Ulna Palsy, Right Hand

  7. Case No. 20 Category: Malignancy. Diagnosis: Basal Call Carcinoma, Upper Lip

  8. Case No. 21 Category: Malignancy. Diagnosis: Retromolar Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  9. Case No. 22 Category: Malignancy. Diagnosis: Malignant Melanoma, Right Arm

  10. Case No. 23 Category: Congenital Anomaly. Diagnosis: Syndactyly

  11. Case No. 24 Category: Congenital Anomaly. Diagnosis: Bladder Exstrophy and Epispadias

  12. Case No. 25 Category: Congenital Anomaly. Diagnosis: Micromelia, Brachydactyly, Adactyly, and Brachymetacarpalia, Left Hand

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