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Limb Transplantation in Congenital Deformities

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This chapter presents current issues for possible limb transplantation in newborns and indicates directions, which will be likely to produce some answers on different feasibility aspects. Even if total hand transplantation (HT) will never be used in congenital individuals, current research advancements may allow composite tissue allotransplantation (CTA) to be an adequate tool for managing many currently “incurable” malformations presenting with different missing anatomical parts. There are numerous cases of congenital limb deformities (CLD) in which failure of formation or development has no surgical answer because we are unable to restore or properly replace the missing parts. “Confusion arises also from the circumstance that these anomalies are never exactly alike” [1].

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    Aram Gazarian & Davit O. Abrahamyan

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  1. Italian Institute of Hand Surgery, Monza,Milan, Italy

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  2. University of Canberra, Australia

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  3. International Hand and Composite, Tissue Allograft Society, Australia

    Marco Lanzetta (Director, Adjunct Professor and President) (Director, Adjunct Professor and President)

  4. Department of Transplantation, Édouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France

    Jean-Michel Dubernard  & Palmina Petruzzo  & 

  5. Department of Surgery, University of Cagliari, Italy

    Palmina Petruzzo

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Gazarian, A., Abrahamyan, D.O. (2007). Limb Transplantation in Congenital Deformities. In: Lanzetta, M., Dubernard, JM., Petruzzo, P. (eds) Hand Transplantation. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0374-3_55

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