Hand transplant surgery

Composite tissue allotransplantation of the hand and face: a new frontier in transplant and reconstructive surgery.

Each year an estimated 7-million people in the USA need composite tissue reconstruction because of surgical excision of tumors, accidents and congenital malformations. Limb amputees alone comprise over 1.2 million of these. This figure is more than double the number of solid organs needed for transplantation. Composite tissue allotransplantation in the form of hand and facial tissue transplanta...

Wide Awake Hand Surgery

“Wide Awake Hand Surgery” is a small illustrated technical book written by Donald Lalonde, who is a professor at Dalhousie Medical School in New Brunswick, Canada. Dr. Lalonde has extensive expertise in hand surgery, with many years of experience using local anesthetics with epinephrine in surgery. This book is written in a simple, easy-to-understand manner; as the author states in the preface,...

Surgery of the Hand

Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

HYPOTHESIS Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) has been proposed as a useful alternative to conventional open or laparoscopic surgery. However, most information is fragmented and comes from specific or selective indications. To assess the current situation of HALS, a general overview of the fields of application, results, and quality of the evidence of these results is necessary. DATA S...

Surgery of the Hand