Improvisation in wrap-around toe-to-thumb transfer.
Wrap-around partial great toe transfer, a one time dream, is now a well established and universally accepted method of thumb reconstruction. In this technique, part of the soft tissue of the great toe are wrapped around and shaped to the size of the graft from iliac bone in such a manner that a thumb of normal dimensions and shape is produced. Instead of the iliac bone graft, we found great merit in using the second metacarpal from the traumatised hand to be reconstructed. In this paper its use and merits are elaborated.
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Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Microvascular Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
D000673:Amputation, Traumatic / Q000601:surgery*; D001864:Bone Wires; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008663:Metacarpus / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000379:methods*; D013933:Thumb / Q000293:injuries* / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D014034:Toes / Q000637:transplantation*