Talk:Traumatic amputation

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== History ==

===Limb reimplantation

• 1962: The first successful replantation worldwide, was a total brachial amputation in a child in Boston USA, in 23 May 1962 by American surgeons Ronald. A. Malt and Mc Khann, in a boy 12 years old, without microscope (The Boston Arm). The publication released on year 1964
• 1962 A second replantation performed in August 1962 in Chicago. Publication was made also later (1964) 1,5 year after the operation.
• 1963: In 2 January 1963 a successful replantation of human hand performed by the Chinese doctor Ch' Εn Chung-Wei et al, in VI People's Hospital of Shangai China. This operation made by loops magnification and the first published in international literature on time. Chinese doctor used the instruments of a horologist[14].
• 1968: First successful replantation of total Digit amputation (Thumb) published in year 1968 by Japanese surgeons Komatsu and Tamai in Japan, by Surgical Microscope [15].

Worldwide History of Limb Transplantation

• 1994: In year 1994 French surgeons performed in Paris the first eterologous transplantation of cadaveric arm in an old amputated man. The transplantation was successful but the patient suffered from pain and other complications of medicines, so after 5 years in 1999 asked for re-amputation.
• 2000: In Insburg Austria has made a Transplantation of TWO cadaveric hands to pyrotechnist Theo Keltz, with best results. The patient made a grear roud of countries driving...bicycle [16]
• 2004 French surgeons performed in 2004 a second transplantation of one cadaveric hand in man, with good results.
• 2005: Australian Surgeons performed a 3 limp Replantation in a child 8 years old, after an accident with crash by basquet shore (two hands, one leg) in Sidney Hospital [17].

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:37, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Merge suggested

I am new to wikipedia, so I dont know the proper polite protocol to do this. But I would like to ask, how is this page different from the page on "amputation"?

Should this page be merged?

Shon Lee (talk) 05:24, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

I have transferred information from this page to the amputations page, I think this is a better arrangement, because this page was highly redundant. Please check out amputation to see if the transfer is satisfactory. I cannot find the sources that were quoted in this original article. I cannot even find the titles on the internet. So, I used similar facts for the statistics and used a different source.

I hope the original author does not take offense in my actions without his/her permission. I have placed a merger tag and a request to merge below but I did not receive a response. So I decided to " be bold" and just do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shon Lee (talk • contribs) 01:59, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Shon, I have reverted your merge to allow time for discussion, and to ensure no loss of information. I have placed a merge tag on the page Amputation, check that out. Also, it is typical to hold discussions about mergers on the Target article's talk page. I will start the discussion there, talk:Amputation#Merge proposal, so you can see how it should go. please continue discussion there. Cliff (talk) 15:00, 26 May 2011 (UTC)