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On making a thumb: One hundred years of surgical effort

  • J. William Littler
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests: J. William Littler, M.D., 14 E. 90th St., New York, N. Y. 10028.
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    From the Departments of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and the Roosevelt Hospital, New York, N. Y.
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      The history and methods of thumb reconstruction from 1874 to the present are reviewed, with particular attention given to several procedures and the surgeons who initiated and developed them.
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