Use of an index finger as a bank in thumb reconstruction after tumor resection: About one case.
The use of a "bank finger" by its very nature is almost exclusively reserved for the management of traumatic hand injuries. Here, we described one case of thumb reconstruction using the patient's index finger as a "bank finger" after the excision of a grade II malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Roubaix Hospital, Roubaix, France. Electronic address: g-poiret@hotmail.fr.
Guillaume
G
Poiret
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, University Hospitals of Lille, Roger Salengro Hospital, boulevard du Pr-Emile-Laine, 59037 Lille cedex, France; Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, King Fahad Hospital (MOH), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Nawaf
N
Aljudaibi
SOS Hands, Hand Surgery Centre, clinique Lille-Sud, 59810 Lesquin, France.
Guillaume
G
Wavreille
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000601:surgery*; D051677:Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D013933:Thumb / Q000601:surgery*
Bank finger; Doigt banque; Hand; Main; Neoplasm; Néoplasie