Shock Picture: Man Growing a Replacement Fingertip on His Stomach!
- Posted on November 17, 2011 at 10:51am by
Liz Klimas
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Lopping off a fingertip isn’t necessarily the end of the world. For Wang Yongjun whose finger had an unfortunate meeting with an electric saw though, it could have meant eventually losing his entire finger, which for a furniture worker could be a bit of a disability.
According to Orange News (via Gizmodo), the doctors of this 20-year-old Chinese man had to make a split decision on how to save the finger and they came up with an unusual approach:
Dr. Huang Xuesong said the muscle and skin had been cut away from the end of his finger leaving only the bone showing.
“We had to make a quick decision or he could have lost his finger. We decided to cultivate a new fingertip on his stomach,” he said.
Doctors operated and attached Wang’s finger to his stomach in the hope that new skin and muscle would grow around it.
Dr Huang said the technique was a way of restoring blood circulation to the injured finger so that the body could repair itself.
This Chinese man's severed fingertip is repairing itself while connected to his stomach. (Photo: Orange News)
For now, Huang says the surgery was a success and Yongjun’s finger will remain attached to his stomach for a month until a new fingertip has regrown.
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Comments (47)
JimmyP
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:22amMan that’s some creepy poo.
Mommie!!!
Nightmares tonite, fer sher!
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 8:26amNo doubt. Glad I saw this in the morning before work, so I can forget about it, I might have wet the bed. eeewwwwww….
Report Post »cosmic dogma
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:29amDo believe an American invented a powder that, when sprinkled daily on wounds, can regrow tissue, such as fingertips. ?
Report Post »jingoistic.patriot
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 9:35pmI’m actually amazed the ChiComs needed an electric saw to cut that cheap assed wood that they make that junk furniture that they send over here. The Nike factory next door could have sewn that back on right nice I’m sure.
Report Post »Pydge
Posted on November 27, 2011 at 5:36amThis is another chicom copy and brag about it story. American plastic surgeons have been doing pedicle grafts for nearly 50 yrs!!
Report Post »The photo is showing how positioning is important: I think the hand and arm are going to be very fatigued in that position. Immobilizing is key. It looks awful! Hope it heals fast like it should for this 20 yr old.
deerjerkydave
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 7:55pmVery convenient if his belly ever has an itch.
Report Post »GTH
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:40pmOh yeah! That’s going to be a great looking finger….Not.
Report Post »EchoHawk
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 6:18pmTo bad the brain trust here couldn’t use the technique to generate a couple of brain cells.
Report Post »Marine25
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:56pmFundamentalist response: it’s science, we’re against it.
Report Post »Boardopopie
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:23pmI almost had this done when I had the end of my finger sheared off in a press. It’s actually a common procedure. Since mine was cut at an angle it was easier to take a little more bone off and fold over the flap, and reset the nail bed back further.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 3:59pmWhy did they do this? I understand that he cut off his finger tip, but don’t doctors know that the fingertips are one of the few parts of the human body that will regrow if they are cut off? All they had to do was keep it covered and clean and the finger would have healed. And in the mean time, he wouldn’t have his hand sewn to his stomach.
Report Post »UisConfruzed
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:00pmNope, didn’t happen for me. Lost tip and 1/8″ bone, nothing regrew, kept wrapped and moist for over a month.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:44pmThat’s gross! How does he pick his nose?
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:48pmAs Jeff Spicoli might have said regarding this photo, “Gnarly!”
Report Post »TheCaseForReason
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:40pmYou gotta love medical science.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:59pmAnd, if some nut could create… a Black Hole or Big Bang… wiping out everything… he would try, in the name of Science!
Report Post »jas0707
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:34pmWhat good is it if it always attached to his torso?
Report Post »Stryker
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:40pmIt won’t “always be attached to his torso” they will surgically remove it once the tissue heals. This is nothing new an has been used for years to cover amputated appendages, but it is a pretty cool photo.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:32pmBet that makes it hard to put on a tee shirt…
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:31pmThis isn’t new. Must be a slow news week. Protesters taking up most of it. My wife want me to have the surgery only about four inches lower.
Report Post »nueces
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 1:18pmThanks for that. Went well with my lunch.
Report Post »your huckleberry
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:43pmI guess that’s what you call an “outie”.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:57pmThat Bobbit guy should try this!
Report Post »Reload
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:42pmI’m not quite sure I would want my finger tip back that bad.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:23pmAgreed
Report Post »Geminitis
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:38pmHope he is not used to biting his nails
Report Post »trnkey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:27pmI saw this procedure used twice 45 years or so ago while a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy. The first was on a guy who lost an ear and a strip of skin from his chest was formed into a tube that was then attached to the side of his head where the ear was missing. The second, a flap of skin wad made from the abdomen and the forearm wrapped in it for a guy that had been bitten by a rattle snake and gangrene had killed the skin. Both were successful in repair to the damaged areas on the patients. It did look a little like a scene from Star Wars to see guys, one with a tube of skin coming out of his shirt to the side of his head and the other with his forearm growing into his stomach.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:39pmI first found that I had this problem in the Military: When exposed to something gruesome, the incongruity to normal, in defense, makes me Laugh!
Report Post »This causes me to give the Medical Community the LOL-Award of the Week!
banjarmon
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:13pmA built in Belly Button scratcher!!.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 12:00pmDoes this explain that unmentionable in obama’s nether regeion
Report Post »Deb C
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:38amNow THIS is the way to treat humans ! NOT by integrating man-made mechanical parts !!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:18amhate to see what happens when he has a misquitoe start biting his right shoulder :)
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:01am.
Report Post »John Wayne Bobbit, could have used this technique……..
TX_45_ACP
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:22amOr a woman who wants to become a man…
Report Post »iac
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 2:28pmDitto Spanda !!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:00amLOL :) Spare Penis?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:08amKuato from Total Recall with Ahnold Swarzennazi!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on November 17, 2011 at 11:12amIf that is what you would use it for it is hardly worth the effort…What could you do with that?
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