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CONSULTANT cosmetic surgeons Kenneth Paton and Michael Masser were leaders in their field.

Mr Paton treated victims of the Bradford City fire disaster in 1985 and helped a Wakefield woman born without ears to hear for the first time by carrying out reconstructive surgery on the bone structure of her face.

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An obituary, published in the British Medical Journal in February 1991, described Mr Masser as “an excellent surgeon who gave much thought to and read widely on his subject”.

The article added that Mr Masser was “an innovator in surgical technique and one of the first surgeons in this country to undertake tissue expansion surgery”, who “wrote extensively and gave many papers to learned societies”.

In 1991 the Paton Masser Memorial Fund was founded in memory of the murdered surgeons to award 5,000 a year towards British research projects in plastic surgery.

A specialist plastic surgery unit named after Mr Paton and Mr Masser was opened at Pinderfields Hospital in 2001.

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