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A 17-year-old girl in her prime, who worked in a food factory after graduation, had her right hand cut seven times horizontally due to a momentary negligence. Four cuts were made to the palm and three cuts were made to the fingers, with a length of 2 centimeters and a length of no more than half a centimeter. The broken fingers were not connected at all and were broken into a total of seventeen pieces. After visiting multiple hospitals, there is no way to treat it. Can the broken finger be reattached? Can a teenage girl regain her right hand? Please watch "Seventeen Cutting Fingers" by Approaching Science.

Seventeen year old teenage girl Xiaoshuang started working in a food factory after graduating from high school to alleviate the financial burden on her family. On December 19, 2006, due to a momentary negligence, her right hand was caught in a machine and cut seven times horizontally. Despite going to multiple hospitals, there is no way to treat it, and the doctor's result is amputation. Xiao Shuang's future life path is still so long, and his family cannot accept such a result. With last hope, he came to Zhengzhou Renji Hospital (formerly Zhengzhou Renji Trauma Microsurgery Hospital) at night

After the consultation, the doctor found that Xiaoshuang had four cuts on his palm and three cuts on his fingers, which were 2 centimeters long and less than half a centimeter short. The broken fingers were not connected at all and had been broken into a total of seventeen pieces.

At that time, there was at most one case of successful replantation of 11 severed fingers in the national and even global records. Such a large number of severed fingers were rare in the history of microsurgery, and there was no precedent for such a case of successful replantation of so many severed fingers.

Although surgery can be performed, the success rate of finger replantation surgery within 6-8 days is slightly higher. Faced with the earnest request of the family for finger preservation, it was ultimately decided to perform finger preservation surgery for Xiaoshuang. In order to shorten the time limit, a team of experts led by Dean Hou Jianxi divided into four groups to perform surgeries on 17 anastomosis sites. Once one anastomosis site is of poor quality, blocked or blocked, the rest will be in vain. Therefore, every anastomosis site and every injection requires extremely fine precision. Due to the extremely complex and rare nature of the injuries, the entire surgery was completed after 21 hours of collaboration among 12 doctors. The surgery involved over 1000 stitches, and ultimately, Xiaoshuang's right hand was replanted and all survived.

This is the holder of the case with the highest number of single handed amputations in the world so far, with 17 successfully severed fingers and functional recovery after surgery. This case was published by Professor Fang Guangrong in the article "Current Status and Prospects of Replantation and Reconstruction", and was included in the 2012 volume of "Chinese Encyclopedia of Microsurgery" and "Compilation of Difficult Surgical Cases in Microsurgery".

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