The History of Extremity Replantation
Fig. 1.1 World’s first digital replant. Tamai 1965 (Used with permission from Kamatsu and Tamai [1]) Despite this, the history of reattachment of parts has a strong religious association, and…
Toe-to-Hand Transplantation After Failed Replantation
Fig. 9.1 (a–f) Total great-toe transfer to an unreplantable thumb amputation at proximal phalanx. (a) Coverage reconstruction of the amputation stump of the thumb with a pedicle groin flap before…
Optimizing Vascular Patency in Replantation
Fig. 8.1 An example of tagging pertinent structures in a thumb replant. Here, silver/gold clamps are utilized to mark arteries and black clamps to mark dorsal veins. A stitch is…
Heterotopic Digital Replantation
Fig. 10.1 Immediate opponensplasty with flexor digitorum superficialis from the amputated finger. Left: crush injury of right hand, resulted in incomplete amputation of right thumb, index, long, and ring fingers…
Replantation of the Forearm or Arm
Fig. 7.1 (a) This transhumeral amputation with an associated elbow dislocation occurred as a result of an 11-year-old girl getting her sleeve caught in a manure spreader. (b, c) Despite…
