Index Finger Pollicization for Hypoplastic Thumb: Surgical Technique.

Ravi F Sood1, Amir H Taghinia1, Joseph Upton1

  • 1From the Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Summary

This study details a step-by-step surgical approach for pollicization, a procedure to reconstruct or create a thumb. It focuses on treating congenital thumb hypoplasia, specifically Blauth type IIIB.