Toe-to-hand transfer: experience with thirty-eight digits.
Great functional difficulty and mental agony are experienced when there is traumatic amputation of the thumb or multiple fingers or a congenital defect of the thumb or fingers. With the development of microsurgery during recent years, it has become possible to transfer toes to the hand, which is an excellent procedure for reconstruction of defective thumbs and fingers. This procedure was used on 32 patients involving 38 digits with satisfactory results.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000601:surgery*; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D009068:Movement; D012677:Sensation; D014034:Toes / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000379:methods