Finger Amputation Case Study

The literature defines Amputation as partial or total surgical or traumatic separation of a part of the whole body. Finger amputation is a common injury with important consequences and can cause psychological changes, inability to perform daily activities, to work and permanent functional. Moreover, it also brings large direct and indirect financial loss to the patient and to the society. Workplace is where most of these injuries occur especially for the male population at productive ages. The NTDB (National Trauma Databank) shows in their study that in a period from 2000 to 2004 6,155 patients underwent finger amputation in the US, accounting for 69.1% of amputations.5 There is no national data in china on the incidence of traumatic amputations

It was not until the 1800s that digital replantation became a possibility before that many case reports regarding nose reattachment were published by European surgeons in between the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, based on nose reconstruction techniques that were developed in India, where criminals and inhabitants of defeated cities were commonly punished with amputation of the

Functional outcome in replantation surgery is the main goal and that guided many Chinese surgeons in their work and later on they stated that ‘SURVIVAL WITHOUT RESTORATION OF FUNCTION IS NOT A SUCCESS’, so adequate nerve, bone, tendon, skin repair is of real benefit for function replantation.

In our study we considered replantation the best treatment option for our patient based on his age as patient being young replantion its better than prosthesis and with the daily advancing of the medical knowledge and equipment that gives him more chances to have a well-functioning limb, he has a good health status with no tobacco or alcohol abuse and that added the chances for revascularization survival.

To have a better understanding of the surgical procedure the anatomy of the upper limb neurovascular structures, bone, muscle are also revised in our