A vision of hand surgery over the next 25 years.
Predictions for hand surgery advances over the first 25 years of the new millennium are made. Anticipated changes are categorized as societal, technologic, and research with clinical applications. Certainly advances in computer science and molecular biology will affect all aspects of our lives. Within hand surgery, tissue engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology offer great promise.
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D003201:Computers / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D013502:General Surgery / Q000639:trends*; D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000639:trends; D013038:Specialization / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States