TURIN (Reuters) - A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern ...

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Doctors at Binh Duong General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have completed a complex surgical procedure by reattaching a woman's severed hand after first keeping it alive by grafting it to her leg.

A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralyzed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern Italy said. Surgeons ...