Intergender Hand Transplant: A Sex Congruent Hand Transformation.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Hand and upper-extremity transplantation restore severely damaged limbs that cannot be repaired with conventional surgical techniques. Over the past 20 years, more than 200 vascularized composite allotransplantations have been performed worldwide, among them 7 were cases of sex unmatched hand transplants. The long term effects of recipient sex hormones and nerve regeneration on the sexually dimorphic physical features of donor upper extremity have not been described previously. We report a case of sex congruent transformation of hand morphology in an intergender hand transplant.
Medical subject headings
- Hand Transplantation
- Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation