The Vilkki Procedure as an emergency treatment in an apocalyptical hand injury - a case report and first description.

Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg

Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery, Luzerner KantonsspitalLucerneSwitzerland.

Published: November 2017

We describe a young man who suffered a severe mutilating injury of the hand and forearm while working as a cheesemaker. He underwent a complex reconstruction of his right adominant hand including a heterotopic thumb replantation into the distal radius and combined with an emergency flow-through anterolateral thigh flap.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5707116PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2017.1403289DOI Listing

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