Girl's hand grafted on to her leg

Amazing! I agree Modern medicine is wonderful.

Thats a real knee-slapper!

What? Holy hell, that's amazing.

Wow, Thats amazing! But I bet it causes quite a bit of mental trama. I mean, think about it, waking up in the hospital, looking down and seeing your hand sticking out of your leg? lol. I'd probably think I fell into a batch of radioactive waste and mutated! haha

I agree with you all. Thank (insert preferred god, gods, or supreme being here) for modern medicine!

One thing though. Do you think we have the knowledge and technology to add functioning limbs to the human body in a place where they shouldnt be, like Goro or Kintaro from Mortal Kombat?

I know it's been said already... but this story is simply amazing. Thanks for sharing it.

Sick,but it works.

Wow. You can attach severed limbs to parts of the body where they don't belong to (even if they aren't functional there)? Yes, you basically make a skin graft with the two parts and then do microsurgery to attach the blood vessels. Which is the whole point of putting the hand/arm/misplaced body part on the body in a different position. By grafting into a blood supply that limb is able to be perfused with blood and survive while its place of origin heals enough for a reattachment surgery. There's a common misconception that neurons don't ever regrow. Only neurons of the central nervous system d... [More]

amazing............ .