//Man's thumb rebuilt using toe and knee bones in first-of-its-kind surgery

Man's thumb rebuilt using toe and knee bones in first-of-its-kind surgery

Surgeons rebuilt a patient’s entire thumb last month using a bone from his knee and a toe.Dr. James Higgins of MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and Dr. Ryan Katz of the Curtis National Hand Center conducted the complex microsurgery using two simultaneous tissue flaps to reconstruct a thumb that was completely amputated in a miter saw accident last year.”I believe his procedure, the double-flap surgery, is