Hand Thumb Thumb Replaced This Man Feet

Posted by unique news Monday, September 26, 2011 0 comments

Thumbs up - with his toe: James Byrne shows off his new novel digit

A man was accidentally cut his thumb. Now he gets a new hand thumb which is really the big toe itself. Like what?

James Byrne (29) suffered great pain after he injured his left thumb last December when sawing a piece of wood.

After failed efforts to reunite her thumb, a plastic surgeon at Frenchay Hospital Umraz Khan, Bristol, England, transplant a big thumbs into his left leg.

Previous Byrne claims could not effectively work for his missing thumb so he decided to perform this operation. When operating, Khan led the two surgical and anesthesia teams that work on the big toe and hand Byrne at the same time.

Surgeons at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol transplanted James' big toe on his left hand to

Operation on 8 September and it took eight hours. "One thing that is rarely performed and this operation is a micro surgical procedure is very complicated because it is associated reunification of bone, nerves, blood vessels, muscles, ligaments and skin of the foot to hand," he explained.

According to Khan, Byrne will learn to rebalance itself and later he will be able to walk and run as usual.

"Loss of big toe semelumpuhkan not lose your thumbs," he said as quoted from Dailymail