Chinese Doctors Attach Man's Hand to His Ankle After Accident
Chinese factory worker Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident at work but doctors were able to save the limb by temporarily grafting it to his ankle.
Xiao Wei's hand was cut off at the wrist in a machine accident last month. Surgeons at Changsha Hospital had to fix his arm before reattaching the hand. In order to do that, they grafted the hand to the ankle to provide a blood supply, USAToday reported.
The man will still need additional surgeries to restore mobility in the limb, but the hand is now successfully reattached to the arm and doctors are optimistic he will regain the full function of his hand.
Apparently, it's not that unusual. Cairian Healy of the Royal College of Surgeons in England told the BBC that the concept of saving a severed part of the body by attaching it to another part of the body to give it a blood supply is well recognized.
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Watch video below:
Xiao Wei's hand was cut off at the wrist in a machine accident last month. Surgeons at Changsha Hospital had to fix his arm before reattaching the hand. In order to do that, they grafted the hand to the ankle to provide a blood supply, USAToday reported.
The man will still need additional surgeries to restore mobility in the limb, but the hand is now successfully reattached to the arm and doctors are optimistic he will regain the full function of his hand.
Apparently, it's not that unusual. Cairian Healy of the Royal College of Surgeons in England told the BBC that the concept of saving a severed part of the body by attaching it to another part of the body to give it a blood supply is well recognized.
RELATED: DOCTORS GROW NEW NOSE FOR MAN ON HIS FOREHEAD
Using skin and cartilage from a patient's ribs, Chinese doctors grew a replacement nose on the forehead of a 22-year-old man injured in a car accident last year. Growing the nose took about 9 months.
The lead plastic surgeon, Guo Zhihui, from Xiehe Hospital, said that the patient, nicknamed Xiaolian, could lead a normal life after the transplant.
Watch video below:
Chinese Doctors Attach Man's Hand to His Ankle After Accident
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