What’s New in Hand Surgery

Rapid Survey of Wasting and Stunting in Children: Whats New, Whats Old and Whats the Buzz?

Nationwide Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC), conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and UNICEF in 2013-14 showed a marked improvement in the status of the child malnutrition over the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3) that was conducted in 2005-06. Despite some impressive gains in the anthropometric indicators of malnutrition, the absolute levels remain high, and of c...

What's new in hand surgery.

Robotic surgery: change in new surgery techniques

Medical science experts have reached scientific and technological improvements in recent ‎decades and have turned surgery into a routine treatment by controlling its complications. ‎Cumulative changes in surgery resulted in decreased pain and discomfort and controlled ‎complications. The developmental path and changes have resulted in endoscopic with minimal ‎invasive surgery (M...

Transfer of Sensory Branches of Radial Nerve in Hand Surgery

One of the main principles in hand surgery is the restitution of sensation in fingers which seems hard or impossible in extensive hand traumas especially in war injuries. In this article transfer of sensory branch of radial nerve to sensory branch of median (in 25 cases) and to sensory branch of ulnar nerve (for the first time in literature and in 12 cases) is reported. Operative technics and r...

Amputation in hand surgery.

P. C. Leung, MBBS, MS, FRACS, FRACS(E) Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatic Surgery Faculty of Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories Hong Kong When referring to amputation, the immediate association tends to be amputation related to trauma. There is little doubt that injury is by far the commonest cause of amputation, but one must not forget that babies might al...