Thumb Reconstruction: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Related eMedicine topics

Fingers and Thumb, Trauma

Amputation, Fingertip

Digital Amputations

Hand, Amputations and Replantation

Keywords

thumb injury, hand injury, toe-to-thumb transfer, toe to thumb transfer, thumb replantation, thumb reconstruction, osteoplastic thumb reconstruction, Moberg flap, Littler neurovascular island flap, kite flap, dorsal metacarpal artery flap, microvascular toe transfer flap, wraparound flap, toe-to-hand transfer, toe to hand transfer, phalangization, pollicization, pouce flottant thumb, Blauth type IV, Blauth type 4, congenitally absent thumb, Blauth type V, Blauth type 5, thumb amputation, toe amputation

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