replantation
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Replantation or reattachment is defined as the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as a finger, hand, arm, toe, foot, or leg) that has been completely cut from the body. Examples include reattachment of a partially or fully amputated finger, or reattachment of a kidney that has had an avulsion-type injury.
Key facts
- Medical intervention.Name
- Replantation
- Medical intervention.Image
- Near-amputated finger tip with stitches 2.jpg
- Medical intervention.Caption
- A replanted middle finger tip, reattached through the use of surgical sutures.
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
12,581 papers- Efficiency in Replantation/Revascularization Surgery.Hand clinics · 2019
- Intentional Replantation Techniques: A Critical Review.Journal of endodontics · 2018
- Toe Transfers Outperform Replantation after Digit Amputations: Outcomes of 126 Toe Transfers.Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2025
- Health Policy Implications of Digital Replantation.Clinics in plastic surgery · 2024
- Long-Term Outcomes of Arm Replantation.Annals of plastic surgery · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Medical uses
- Technique
- Recovery
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
Replantation or reattachment is defined as the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as a finger, hand, arm, toe, foot, or leg) that has been completely cut from the body. Examples include reattachment of a partially or fully amputated finger, or reattachment of a kidney that has had an avulsion-type injury.
Replantation of amputated parts has been performed on fingers, hands, forearms, arms, toes, feet, legs, ears, scalp, face, lips, penis, and a tongue. It can be performed on almost any body part of children.
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