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Double Hand Transplantation: Functional Outcome after 18 Months

From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute of Quality Control in Plastic Surgery, the Department of Trauma Surgery and the Department of Surgery – Unit of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Innsbruck University Hospital, Austria

Correspondence: Professor Hildegunde Piza-Katzer, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Leopold Franzens University, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. E-mail: hildegunde.piza{at}uibk.ac.at

In March 2000, we performed a double hand transplantation on a patient who had suffered traumatic hand amputations 6 years previously. The transplantations were both successful and, 18 months later, the patient has regained some complex hand functions and remarkably good tactile gnosis.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 27, No. 4, 385-390 (2002)
DOI: 10.1054/jhsb.2002.0759


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