Friday, October 20, 2006

Limb to Crotch: Deferred Transitory Heterotopic Implant

Filed under: in the news...

Dr. Jon Mikel Iñarritu over at Unbounded Medicine describes (and very graphically illustrates) a case of a patient who underwent reimplantation of the left upper extremity, severed above the elbow. The subsequently developed infection at the anastomosis site has necessitated removal of the extremity and reimplantation into the groin region, "to save it by taking it into a healthy zone where it would be possible to nourish it while we cleaned the infected area."

Read his account here...

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