Ns. Moiemen et D. Elliot, COMPOSITE GRAFT REPLACEMENT OF DIGITAL TIPS .2. A STUDY IN CHILDREN, Journal of hand surgery. British volume, 22B(3), 1997, pp. 346-352
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.