Ectopic major transplantation for salvage of upper and lower extremity amputations.

Objective: Ectopic tissue transplantation is not a new idea. Godina and his colleagues pioneered this method in the 1980s. This method is a last resort method of preserving an amputated body part, which consists of banking the amputated segment in an ectopic area and returning it to its native place at a later date.