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The images in this hand surgery lecture are gross. There was just an image of all the fingers cut off just a bit above the wrist by a power tool.

Posted by James Bond (aka Igor) (aka Igor) May 24 '10, 22:05

16 hour surgery to reattach. Decent motion and sensation.

Now there is a cut off thumb.

It is amazing the stuff they do.. but the images...

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One of the take home messages of the lecture: don't throw away amputated parts... -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 24, 22:09 8
- Oh, and here is the part about using the big toe for the thumb. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 24, 22:11 3
  - And here is the part about transplanting hands... - James Bond (aka Igor) May 24, 22:16 2
    - This is all just the prequel to Human Centipedes. -- nm - Reagen May 24, 22:21 1
      - and Two Dogs -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 22:21
- and don't take hands donated from serial killers - sideways pixie May 24, 22:10 3
  - Funny you say that... the surgeon opened the lecture by saying there is a debate about whether the brain controls the hand - James Bond (aka Igor) May 24, 22:27 2
    - Of all the appendages that could potentially control the brain ... hand doesn't leap to mind as #1 -- nm - Beryllium May 24, 22:28 1
      - He said hand is the second most complicated ... but then he is a hand surgeon they all think their field is the best. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 24, 22:32

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