Friday, October 26, 2007
Toe-to-thumb Surgery Puts Toe on Hand in San Francisco
Toe-to-thumb Surgery - Rare Surgery Puts Toe on Hand
Surgeons on Wednesday remove a big toe from Garrett La Fever’s foot and attach it to his right hand. A man with a severed thumb walked into a San Francisco hospital on Wednesday. By nightfall, his thumb had been replaced, but he’ll leave the hospital on nine toes.
Toe-to-thumb surgery is nothing new — a successful operation was reported in 1969 — but for 27-year-old Garrett La Fever, asking plastic surgeons to remove his big right toe and stitch it onto his right hand was a big and “very difficult” decision, said his mother.
Read the full report from here
Surgeons on Wednesday remove a big toe from Garrett La Fever’s foot and attach it to his right hand. A man with a severed thumb walked into a San Francisco hospital on Wednesday. By nightfall, his thumb had been replaced, but he’ll leave the hospital on nine toes.
Toe-to-thumb surgery is nothing new — a successful operation was reported in 1969 — but for 27-year-old Garrett La Fever, asking plastic surgeons to remove his big right toe and stitch it onto his right hand was a big and “very difficult” decision, said his mother.
Read the full report from here
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