..., and the development of potent immunosuppressive agents have enabled the realization of such types of transplants. Over the past two decades, a rapidly growing number of hand and upper extremity transplantations have been performed worldwide with highly encouraging results, thus providing many recipients...

... Abstract The management of thumb amputations and mutilating hand injuries has evolved considerably in the era of microsurgery. The current standard for reconstruction relies on autologous tissue, though allogeneic tissue eliminates donor site morbidity and epitomizes Gillies' ideal of replacing...

... pain and phantom hand phenomena, which persisted until his death. Following his amputation he became a left-handed writer. Half a century later, between 1956 and his death in 1961, he suffered two strokes which gradually paralyzed the left side of his body. After the second stroke in 1958, he became...