Hand Transplantation
Transplanting a limb has been a dream of humanity – until 1998 when an international team of surgeons gathered in Lyon, France, and performed the first hand transplantation in history. Since then, groups in the United States, China, Austria, Italy and Bel
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Marco Lanzetta · Jean-Michel Dubernard (Editors) Palmina Petruzzo (Assistant Editor)
Hand Transplantation
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Editors MARCO LANZETTA Director, Italian Institute of Hand Surgery Monza, Milan, Italy Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra, Australia President, International Hand and Composite Tissue Allograft Society JEAN-MICHEL DUBERNARD Department of Transplantation Édouard Herriot Hospital Lyon, France Assistant Editor PALMINA PETRUZZO Department of Transplantation Édouard Herriot Hospital Lyon, France Department of Surgery University of Cagliari, Italy
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006928862 ISBN-10 88-470-0373-3 Springer Milan Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN-13 978-88-470-0373-6 Springer Milan Berlin Heidelberg New York Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Italia 2007
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“to my wife Mariagrazia and my sons Matteo, Michael and Pietro, for sharing all my dreams, and to Valter, Gianni, Domenico, heroic patients, for their trust in me and my trust in them” Marco Lanzetta
“to my grand children Louis, Hugues, Alexis, Émilie, Céline, Elsa ... dreams might come true” Jean-Michel Dubernard
Preface
The story of this book is quite simple: after the first few hand transplants, we felt the need to have regular meetings so that our clinical experiences would be beneficially shared and serve as a basis to draw some guidelines for the future. In so doing, we soon realised that a huge amount of original clinical data and information was becoming available as we were proceeding with our operations and closely following our patients’ progress and functional outcomes. Some of these data were reported in scientific articles, but to group them in a comprehensive book seemed the best way to provide a complete review of this pioneering work. Since starting our hand transpla
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