Medicine: "Microsurgery: Sew Small"
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A man came into the emergency ward at one o'clock. His thumb came in an
hour later. The surgeon's job: get them back together.
The successful re-attaching of fingers to hand requires long hours of
painstaking work in microsurgery. In the operating room , the surgeon
doesn't stand, but sits in a ch ....
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.... side of a piece of paper seen
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Imagine trying to sew two pieces of spaghetti together and you'll have
some idea of what microsurgery involves.
Twenty-five years ago, this man's thumb would have been lost. But in the
1960s, surgeon's began using microscopes to sew what previously had been
almost invisible blood vessels and nerves in limbs. Their sewing
technique had been developed on large blood vessels over a half century
earlier but could not be used in microsurgery until the ne ....
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