title: Technical aspects of the recipient operation in hand transplantation.
abstract: The goal of hand allotransplantation is to achieve graft survival and useful long-term function. To achieve these goals, precise surgical technique is of critical importance. The key surgical steps and sequence of events in hand allotransplantation are similar to major upper extremity replantations, but are modified to accommodate major conceptual differences that exist between the two procedures.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. kazari@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Kodi K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Azari
authors.forename: Joseph E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Imbriglia
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Goitz
authors.forename: Jaimie T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Shores
authors.forename: Marshall L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Balk
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brandacher
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schneeberger
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gorantla
authors.forename: W P Andrew
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006225:Hand / Q000294:innervation; D063987:Hand Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous