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Salvage of the skin envelope in complex incomplete avulsion injury of thumb with venous arterializaiton: A case report

✍ Scribed by Yu-Hsien Lin; Chu-Hsu Jeng; Cheng-Han Hsieh; Hwang-Chi Lin


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
109 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0738-1085

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Abstract

Treatment of an avulsion or degloving injury of the hand is a difficult but not unusual operation for plastic reconstructive or hand surgeons. The avulsion may be salvaged by arteriovenous shunting technique. We present a patient with incomplete avulsion injury of the distal phalanx of thumb. Arteriovenous shunting was created and the wound reconstructed primarily under venous arterialization. The avulsed skin envelope was survived well and functional status was improved. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Microsurgery 30:469–471, 2010.