Abstract
The hand is the most valuable and versatile tool of human that is easily got hurt in life, learning, and work among which the most serious one is amputated finger. And if it is not replanted timely and effectively, it would cause lifelong injury to the patient, but such kind of situation is common in our clinic work. Even though finger replantation is timely and effective, the survival rate would not be 100%, then how to save the hand function that would be a difficult problem for microsurgeons. The good news is that the problem has been solved: finger reconstruction.
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Lin, J., Wang, J., Hu, D., Xu, Y., Zhang, T. (2023). The Development Situation of Finger Reconstruction. In: Atlas of Finger Reconstruction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9612-2_1
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