In the Annals of Surgery last week, Drs. Vilray Papin Blair and Louis T. Byars of St. Louis, Mo. told how they made a finger out of a toe. The patient was a pretty two-year-old girl who had ...

A man suffering from an aggressive form of lung cancer experienced an extremely rare complication of the disease - with one of his fingers and toes swelling unexplainably. It turns out, the bones in ...

Waltham — August 7, 2025 — For patients with amputations affecting the hand, toe transfer surgery provides an alternative to replanting the amputated digits and may lead to greater improvement in hand ...

Buddy taping is the practice of treating an injured finger or toe by taping it to an uninjured digit next to it. This acts as a splint, limiting the injured digit’s movement and keeping it straight ...