Pollicization
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pollicization-200-8246970
title:
Pollicization
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Pollicization is a hand surgery technique in which a thumb is created from an existing finger. Typically this consists of surgically migrating the index finger to the position of the thumb in patients who are either born without a functional thumb or in patients who have lost their thumb traumatically and are not amenable to other preferred methods of thumb reconstruction such as toe-to-hand transfers. During pollicization the index finger metacarpal bone is cut and the finger is rotated approxi
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Surgically turning an existing finger into a thumb
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollicization
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2021-03-24T00:08:57Z
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