A 10-year-old female patient with no pertinent medical or surgical history presented to the orthopedic hand surgeon 2.5 weeks after hitting the dorsal aspect of her left thumb on her desk while ...

Maryland surgeons rebuilt a patient's entire thumb last month using a bone from his knee and a toe.MedStar Union Memorial Hospital Drs. James Higgins and Ryan Katz of the Curtis National Hand ...

§Thumb sidedness reported in 3 studies ... Clinical Outcomes After Autograft Reconstruction for Chronic UCL Injury Study No. Subjects Time to Surgery, wk Length of Follow-Up, mo ...

Cobbler David Lee underwent toe-to-thumb reconstruction, meaning surgeons replaced a thumb he lost with one of his big toes. (left) (Image credit: UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF DERBY AND BURTON) ...

MIAMI, March 17, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Pain relief is more available than ever for treating a painful arthritic thumb, thanks to the development of ever-newer technologies, says Miami-based ...

To bring you these 11 facts about the thumb, Mental Floss spoke with three experts on this unique digit: Barbara Bergin, an orthopedic surgeon in Houston; Loren Fishman, medical director of ...

A man’s hand was ripped and burned by a machine at work, then doctors put his thumb bone in his forearm to keep it alive for reconstruction ...

RECONSTRUCTION of the burned hand starts at the time of the initial dressing. ... This also brings the thumb well away from the index finger into a position of opposition.

Doctors at Ranchi’s Orchid Medical Centre have successfully conducted a thumb reconstruction surgery on a 22-year-old youth. The right thumb of Dinesh Kumar Gope, from Ormanjhi village on Ranchi ...