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Previous Volume 358:99-100 January 3, 2008 Number 1

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Edited by Marco Lanzetta and Jean-Michel Dubernard. 493 pp., illustrated, with DVD-ROM. Milan, Springer, 2007. $259. ISBN 978-88-470-0373-6.

Hand transplantation is a narrow specialty of reconstructive surgery, with around 39 hands having been transplanted in the past 8 years. Currently, there are six centers in Europe, four in China, and one in the United States where the procedure is performed. One of the editors of Hand Transplantation is Jean-Michel Dubernard, who, in 1998, led the French team that performed the world's first hand transplantation with the use of a modern combination regimen for immunosuppression.

Hand Transplantation is organized into 14 sections and includes a companion DVD that contains video clips showing functional outcomes in some European patients. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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