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Research Article| Volume 40, ISSUE 3, P310-312, May 1987

Salvage replantation: free composite transfer from a non-replantable arm

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      Abstract

      Free transfer of two undamaged fingers from a non-replantable left arm to a mutilated right hand in a 16-month-old boy is reported.

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