Go to Dr. Jon Mikel’s Blog Unbounded Medicine and you’ll find a story about an amazing limb salvage operation (warning: some images may be too much for some). A guy came in with an amputated arm but the initial attempt to reattach the arm failed. So what they did was re-amputate the arm and implant it in the crotch area so it can get its blood supply from there. Debridement of the infected stump was successful so they re-implanted the arm from the crotch to its rightful place. Excellent. Sometimes, I wish I was a surgeon.
P.S. Be sure to check Dr. Jon Mikel’s other photos
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