Marco Lanzetta · Jean-Michel Dubernard (Editors)

2007

The story of this book is quite simple: after the first few hand transplants, we felt the need to have regular meetings so that our clinical experiences would be beneficially shared and serve as a basis to draw some guidelines for the future. In so doing, we soon realised that a huge amount of original clinical data and information was becoming available as we were proceeding with our operations and closely following our patients’ progress and functional outcomes. Some of these data were reported in scientific articles, but to group them in a comprehensive book seemed the best way to provide a complete review of this pioneering work.