Recently, a Swiss team working under the Red Cross performed an unusual surgical procedure on several people whose hands were amputated by terrorist machetes in Sierra Leone. In the procedure, the remains of the forearm are separated, turning the once-connected radius and ulna into two separate "digits", in essence making arms into a pair of fleshy pincers and thus restoring some natural grasping ability. FTP, identify th
Recently, a Swiss team working under the Red Cross performed an unusual surgical procedure on several people whose hands were amputated by terrorist machetes in Sierra Leone. In the procedure, the remains of the forearm are separated, turning the once-connected radius and ulna into two separate "digits", in essence making arms into a pair of fleshy pincers and thus restoring some natural grasping ability. FTP, identify this procedure, named after the German surgeon who invented it in World War I.
Recently, a Swiss team working under the Red Cross performed an unusual surgical procedure on several people whose hands were amputated by terrorist machetes in Sierra Leone.
The {Krukenberg} Procedure