Treatment
On the base of last evolution of the science of Microsurgery in last 40 years, a Traumatic amputation can be confronted with these choices, depending from patient's trauma and clinical situation:
- 1st choice: Surgical amputation - break - prosthesis
- 2nd choice: Surgical amputation - Transplantation of other Tissue - Plastic Reconstruction.
- 3rd choice: Replantation - Reconnection - Revascularisation of Amputated Limb, by Microscope (after year 1969)
- 4th choice: Transplantation of cadaveric hand (after year 2000),
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