Author/Editor     Bervar, M
Title     Immediate traumatic thumb loss reconstruction: case reports
Type     članek
Source     Acta Chir Plast
Vol. and No.     Letnik 46, št. 1
Publication year     2004
Volume     str. 3-7
Language     eng
Abstract     In the article we present and evaluate our successful immediate attempts of traumatic thumb loss reconstruction in the last fourteen years: early passive stump elongation, immediate pollicization and replantation. Our experience confirms the known fact that in spite of unfavorable oblique transarticular thumb amputation with interphalangeal joint destruction, considerable bone shortening and interphalangeal joint fusion, successful replantation offered us better cosmetic and partially functional outcome than the one we have obtained ealier with other methods of immediate thumb reconstruction.
Descriptors     THUMB
AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC
REPLANTATION
ADULT
MIDDLE AGE
REOPERATION
ESTHETICS