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Old 03-20-2004, 19:38   #4
Needle D
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Explanation needed

Here are the post op pics of the hand. The docs sewed the hand to the thigh with the thumb in a tube of skin. The way I understand it is after a while they will take the skin and use that as a skin graft.

My question is how does the new skin continue to recieve blood after it is separated from the leg? It would seem to me that the capillaries in the skin would be severed therefore no oxygen to the tissue.
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