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The first human microsurgical transplantation of the second toe to thumb was performed in February 1966 by Dr. Dong-yue Yang and Yu-dong Gu, in Shanghai, China. [10] Great toe (big toe) to thumb was performed in April 1968 by Dr. John Cobbett, in England. [11]
In 1976, he performed one of the first toe-to-thumb transplants on a firefighter who had lost his thumb and could not have it reattached. He also contributed to the development of medical devices such as an inflatable penile prosthesis and a mechanism to reverse vasectomies. [1]
An example of "free flap" could be a "free toe transfer" in which the great toe or the second toe is transferred to the hand to reconstruct a thumb. [1] For all "free flaps", the blood supply is reconstituted using microsurgical techniques to reconnect the artery (brings blood into the flap) and vein (allows blood to flow out of the flap).
Replantation or reattachment is defined as the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as a finger, hand, or toe) that has been completely cut from the body. [1] Examples include reattachment of a partially or fully amputated finger, or reattachment of a kidney that had had an avulsion-type injury.
The first short-term success in human hand transplant surgery occurred with Clint Hallam, [4] from New Zealand. Hallam lost his hand in an accident while in prison. [5] [6] [7] The operation was performed on September 23, 1998, [8] in Lyon, France, by a team assembled from different countries around the world led by French Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, including Professor Nadey Hakim, from ...
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Tibial hemimelia-polysyndactyly-triphalangeal thumb syndrome is a rare genetic limb malformation syndrome which is characterized by thumb triphalangy, polysyndactyly of the hand and foot, and hypoplasia/aplasia of the tibia bone.