title: Salvage surgery for severely deformed hands in leprosy.
abstract: Results of surgery of nine cases of severely deformed hands (considered "useless/hopeless") and the techniques used in each of them to achieve a 'functional hand' are described. The techniques used were: Pollicization of Prof G Brunelli, Cocked-hat technique of Gillies, JESS distractor of BB Joshi. All patients had good results after surgery. However, two patients developed some deformity because of insensitive hands'; This type of surgery is not done routinely but authors would like to encourage other surgeons to try these techniques as hands of a number of patients can be made 'functional' by any of these procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Reconstructive Surgery, Vimala Dermatological Centre, Mumbai, India. salafia90@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salafia
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chauhan
mesh_terms: D006225:Hand / Q000601:surgery; D006227:Hand Deformities, Acquired / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*