Dr.Samir Kumta is a Senior Plastic Surgeon and has an interest on Reconstructive Surgery and Microsurgery. He is a Past President of the Indian Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and is the Scientific Chairman for the Congress of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery to be held in Mumbai in March 2015. 

Key Publications:

• Clinical applications and technical limitations of prefabricated flaps
• Acute inflammation in foetal and adult sheep: the response to subcutaneous injection of turpentine and carrageenan
• Cephalic venous flap: a series of 8 cases and a preliminary report on the use of labelled RBCs to study the saphenous venous flap in dogs.
• Urethral reconstruction using the radial artery forearm free flap: conventional and prefabricated.
• Collagen content of uninjured skin and scar tissue in foetal and adult sheep.
• Use of free interpositional vein grafts as pedicles for prefabrication of skin flaps.
• Glycosaminoglycan composition of uninjured skin and of scar, tissue in fetal, newborn and adult sheep.
• An interesting case of aglossia-adactyly syndrome.
• Unfavourable results in thumb reconstruction.
• A simple and effective way of maintaining the microvascular field clean and dry during anastomosis.
• Plastic surgical audit: The need of the hour.
• Chapter on Microvascular Surgery in Textbook of Orthopaedics by G.S. Kulkarni