Thesis on the metacarpal artery

Tai-Sik Yoon, specialist physician at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, has achieved the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery after the defense of the thesis “Study of the cutaneous vasculature of the 4th dorsal intermetacarpal space. Application in hand reconstructive surgery” which has been supervised by our Dr. Jesus Benito Ruiz and Dr. Anna Carrera.

The study deals with the anatomy of the intermetacarpal cord artery and its branches and its involvement in the design of the dorsal metacarpal flap. The intermetacarpal artery originates from the deep palmar arch and supplies fingers. More specifically, it springs directly from the radial artery and gets divided into the arteries of the thumb and forefinger.

A flap is a vascularized tissue transfer to reconstruct a defect, and therefore every flap must have certain characteristics of size, function, circulation pattern, innervation, and so on. The metacarpal flap was described simultaneously by Maruyama and Quaba and there is controversy about whether to include the artery in the flap (Maruyama’s position) or not (Quaba). We have determined that it is not necessary to include the artery and Quaba design is therefore valid.

You can download and read the defense of the thesis which develops and supports this conclusion rigorously (available only in Spanish):

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1. 15 / Jan

   Antiaging Group BCN said…

   Tesis doctoral sobre la arteria metacarpiana: http://bit.ly/7beO3R

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