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Complications and salvage of an ectopically replanted thumb
N J Yousif1, W W Dzwierzynski, R C Anderson
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
The ectopic replantation of a thumb is described after a mutilating hand injury. The case was followed by a series of complications and surgical procedures to treat these complications. Through perseverance and multiple microsurgical procedures the patient attained a functional hand. The patient's psychological and physical course is described.