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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/18/chinese-ankle-hand/4109355/

Chinese factory worker Xiao Wei lost his right hand in an accident at work but doctors were able to save the limb by temporarily grafting it to his ankle.

Xiao Wei's hand was cut off at the wrist in a machine accident last month. Surgeons at Changsha Hospital had to fix his arm before reattaching the hand. In order to do that, they grafted the hand to the ankle to provide a blood supply, the International Business Times reported.

The man will still need additional surgeries to restore mobility in the limb, but the hand is now successfully reattached to the arm and doctors are optimistic he will regain the full function of his hand.

Apparently, it's not that unusual. Cairian Healy of the Royal College of Surgeons in England told the BBC that the concept of saving a severed part of the body by attaching it to another part of the body to give it a blood supply is well recognized.

Using skin and cartilage from a patient's ribs, Chinese doctors grew a replacement nose on the forehead of a 22-year-old man injured in a car accident last year. Growing the nose took about 9 months.

The lead plastic surgeon, Guo Zhihui, from Xiehe Hospital, said that the patient, nicknamed Xiaolian, could lead a normal life after the transplant.

Last year, a British man who lost his nose to cancer had a replacement grown on one of his arms. His doctors said his appearance and sense of smell should be as they were before the transplant.

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That is pretty cool and interesting.

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Yes, and slightly disturbing at the same time!!

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Neat! But, how does he walk?

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From what I have gathered he was in the hospital during the time his hand was on his leg.

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Oh ok. I was picturing him walking around like that.

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LOL ME TOO! But then DH was reading a couple articles and the articles said that Chinese doctors have already done this procedure successfully one time before. I guess the arm has to be cared for in a certain way though so that it can fuse to the hand when they reattach it. So it requires daily medical care.

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I've seen that before. It's to keep the hand viable until they can reattach it properly.

It's neat they can do that now.


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And think how much easier a hand stand will be now.

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And think how much easier a hand stand will be now.

 LOL You're going to hell for that!



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It was funny though!

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Lawyerlady wrote:

And think how much easier a hand stand will be now.

You almost made me spit my water all over my laptop ...

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