Spare Parts, New Hand  Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 1:25pm
Doctors use bones, nerves and other tissues from man's own body
to rebuild his hand.  A terrible industrial accident nearly cost
a Louisiana man his hand.  Now two doctors with the Center for
Orthopaedics in Lake Charles used a nerve, bones and skin from
other parts of his body to reconstruct the man's hand and give
it sensation again.  Hand surgeon Dr. Andrew Foret and foot and
ankle specialist Dr. Tyson Green typically work on different
patients with a different set of medical needs, but the two
recently paired up for an innovative surgery that saved a man's
hand and its sensation.  "The patient had an injury that
essentially went all the way through the entire hand and it was
at the base of his middle and index fingers," said Dr. Foret.
The bones, tendons, tissue and nerves of the hand were damaged -
a traumatic injury that is equivalent to a gunshot wound
straight through the hand.  "Segments of bone were missing
around the index finger metacarpa