Open AccessAssessing the opinions of subjects with or without sustained hand injury about toe-to-thumb transfer
Author(s) -
İsmail Küçüker,
Serhan Tuncer,
Tolga Eryılmaz,
Betül Ak,
Hakan Bulam,
Sühan Ayhan,
Osman Latıfoǧlu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hand and microsurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2458-7834
DOI - 10.5455/handmicrosurg.188551
Subject(s) - thumb , medicine , hand injury , second toe , physical medicine and rehabilitation , transfer (computing) , physical therapy , surgery , computer science , parallel computing
Traumatic finger amputations may lead to significant functional and aesthetic impairment yet when compared with the number of finger amputations, toe-to-hand transplantation numbers are very low. Material Method: In this study we aimed to assess the thoughts of healthy subjects, with or without previously sustained hand injury, about toe-to-hand transplantation and re-assess their thoughts following a brief informative description of the surgery. Results: We found that after visual briefing, willingness to undergo toe-to-hand transplantation dramatically increased. Conclusion: Visual briefings including video presentations have a great impact on eliminating negative prejudgement. [Hand Microsurg 2015; 4(3.000): 58-62