Thursday, September 3, 2015

NEWS - Doctor Sew Patients Hand To His Stomach

Plastic surgeon Anthony Echo talks with Frank Reyes before surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Reyes, whose hand was badly burned, spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply. Photo: Pat Sullivan, AP / AP


Plastic surgeon Anthony Echo marks areas to prepare for surgery to separate Frank Reyes' hand from his abdomen at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Reyes, whose hand was badly burned, spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply. Photo: Pat Sullivan, AP / AP


Plastic surgeon Anthony Echo, right, examines Frank Reyes' hand before surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Reyes, whose hand was badly burned, spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply. Photo: Pat Sullivan, AP / AP

Plastic surgeon Anthony Echo, left, and resident Amy Xue examine the hand of Frank Reyes after surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Reyes, whose hand was badly burned, spent three weeks with his left hand surgically tucked under a pocket of tissue in his belly to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply. Photo: Pat Sullivan, AP / AP
Photo Credits: Pat Sullivan

87 year old Frank Reyes is a retired ranch worker and school bus driver from Missouri City, Texas who badly burnt his hand. He was changing a tire on his trailer when the jack slipped pinning his hand against the fender. It was 100 degrees, the hot metal cooked his hand.

Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Anthony Echo of Houston's Methodist Hospital at the Texas Medical Center, decided to place Reyes' hand inside his stomach. Dr. Echo surgically tucked Reyes' damaged hand under a pocket of tissue in his stomach to give it time to heal and form a new blood supply - Reyes endured this posture for three weeks. 

This kind of surgery is not so new - temporarily attaching one body part to another or tucking it under the skin - is still not so common. Such operations are used on the battlefield, in trauma circumstances and also in research as a method to incubate lab-grown body parts from scaffold-like materials. 

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