ISSN 0974-3227 Journal of Hand and Microsurgery

Official publication of the Society of Indian Hand and Microsurgeons

Editor-in-Chief Yung-Cheng Chiu Mark Henry Division of Hand and Microsurgery, Department of Orthopedics , J. Terrence Jose Jerome Department of , Hand and Wrist Center of Houston, Department of Orthopedics, China Medical University Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Taichung City, Taiwan Joon Pio Hong Olympia Hospital and Research Centre, Achilleas Thoma Department of Plastic and Trichy, India Division of , Reconstructive Surgery, Asan Medical Department of Surgery, McMaster Centre, University of Ulsan College of Editorial Board University, Ontario, Canada Medicine, Seoul, South Korea Pingtak Chan Konstantinos N. Malizos Yoshitaka Hamada Department of Orthopaedics and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Department of Orthopedics, Kansai Traumatology, Tuen Mun Hospital, and Musculoskeletal Trauma, Medical University Medical Center, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong University of Thessaly, Thessaly, Osaka, Japan Stefano Artiaco Greece Jerker Brandt Department of Orthopaedics and Piza-Katzer Hildegunde Department of , Hand Traumatology, Orthopaedic and Department for Plastic and Center Öresund, Baltzarsgatan, Trauma Center, AOU Città della Salute Reconstructive Surgery, Medical Malmö, Sweden e della Scienza, Italy University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Mathias Tremp Mohammad M. Al-Qattan Austria Department of Plastic, Reconstructive Division of Plastic Surgery, Research Neal C. Chen and Aesthetic Surgery, University Centre, College of Medicine, King Saud Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital Basel, University of Basel, University, Saudi Arabia Hand and Upper Extremity Service, Basel, Switzerland Vikas Gupta Massachusetts General Hospital- Hirslanden Medical Center, Zurich, Department of Shoulder and Hand Harvard Medical School, Boston, Switzerland Surgery, Max Hospitals, Saket and Massachusetts, United States Jorge Boretto Gurgaon, India Pankaj Jindal Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery Vijay Patil Department of Hand Surgery, Department, Prof. Dr. Carlos Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Pune Hand Surgery Institute, Ottolenghi’s Institute, Orthopaedic Basildon University Hospital, Basildon, Pune, India and Traumatology Service, Hospital Essex, United Kingdom Sonu A. Jain Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Mohamed A. Ellabban Department of Orthopaedics, The Argentina Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Ohio State University Wexner Medical Anil K. Bhat Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States Department of Orthopaedics, Kasturba of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Chaitanya S. Mudgal Medical College Hospital, Manipal, Ismailia, Egypt Massachusetts General Hospital, Mangaluru, India Kemal Gokkus Boston, Massachusetts, United States Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Department of Orthopedics, Ahmadreza Afshar Manipal, Mangaluru, India Traumatology, Baskent University Department of Orthopedics, Imam Xiaofang Shen School of Medicine Alanya Research Khomeini hospital, Urmia University of Department of Congenital Hand and Practice Center Saray Mah, Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran Surgery and Microsurgery, WuXi Ninth Antalya, Turkey Ole Reigstad People’s Hospital, China Alexandru V. Georgescu Department of Orthopedics Surgery, Francisco Mercier Department of Plastic and Oslo University Hospital, Norway Department of Hand Surgery, Clínica Reconstructive Surgery, Clinical Seung-Hoon Baek Lambert Rua, Cordeiro, Portugal Hospital of Rehabilitation, University Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Chul Ki Goorens of Medicine Iuliu Hatieganu, Cluj Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Napoca, Cluj, Romania Kyungpook National University, Traumatology, Regional Hospital of South Korea Tienen, Tienen, Belgium ISSN 0974-3227

Steffen Low David Elliot Hyun-Chul Park Clinic for Orthopaedic and Trauma Department of Hand Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Surgery, Caritas-Krankenhaus, St. Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery Hand and Microsurgery, Guriuison Germany and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery Hospital, Hisham M. Awan Broomfield, United Kingdom Geombae-ro, Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do, Department of Orthopaedics, The Kota Hayashi Korea Ohio State University Wexner Medical Department of Orthopedics, Ogori Andrey Aristov Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States Daiichi General Hospital, Yamaguchi, Science Research Institution, Vaikunthan Rajaratnam Japan Krasnodar Regional Hospital, Orthopaedic Surgery, Khoo Teck Puat Wei F. Chen Krasnodar, Russia Hospital, Yishun, Singapore Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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