Hand Transplantation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lanzetta, Marco (Editor), Dubernard, Jean-Michel (Editor), Petruzzo, Palmina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Orthopedics.; Rehabilitation.; Surgery.; Plastic surgery.; Surgical transplantation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Plastic Surgery.; Transplant Surgery.

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 Belgium have launched hand transplantation progr...