According to Daily Mail , the man known as Zhou lost his left hand in an accident involving a spinning blade at the factory where he works. Describing his initial reaction to the damage, Zhou told People's Daily Online ,. So, the microsurgeon and his team attached the hand to Zhou's right ankle, allowing the hand to receive blood from the leg's arteries. The hand was grafted onto the ankle for over a month and then reattached to Zhou's arm in an extremely complex procedure lasting 10 hours.
Doctors graft hand to man’s leg for a month to keep it alive - Telegraph
By Madlen Davies for MailOnline. Doctors have performed an extraordinary operation to save a man's severed hand by attaching it to his leg. The man's hand was successfully grafted back on to his wrists after a month, when the nerves and tendons had healed from the trauma. The rare operation was performed at a hospital in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in central China.
Doctors Save Man's Severed Hand By Actually Attaching It To His Leg
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CNN A man in China may regain use of his hand after it was cut off in an industrial accident. Even more amazing is how the doctors saved the man's hand: They grafted it onto his leg. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger.