Replantation of Portions of Four Fingers in One Hand

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SINCE the first successful replantation of a human thumb reported by Komatsu and Tamai1 in 1968, hundreds of fingers have been successfully replanted, principally in the People's Republic of China, with a 50 per cent success rate.2 Replantation of multiple fingers in one hand is rarer, and successful replantation of all four fingers in one hand rarer still. Snyder et al.3 described a patient in whom four digits were replanted without success. Ch'en2 also replanted four fingers, with survival of three.The following case of successful replantation of portions of four fingers demonstrates three technics of digital reattachment: arterial and . . .

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