COMPOSITE GRAFT REPLACEMENT OF DIGITAL TIPS .2. A STUDY IN CHILDREN

This study investigated the outcome of composite graft replacement of 50 amputated digital tips in 50 children ol er a period of 3 years and 6 months. Eleven of 18 tips (61%) which were replaced within 5 hours survived completely while none of 32 digital tips replaced after 5 hou rs survived completely. This difference was highly significant, The me an delay time between amputation and replacement in the successful gro up was 3.9 hours and in the others was 7.2 hours, This difference nas also statistically significant, The implications of the findings of th is series to the use of this treatment are discussed.