'Reconstruction' means rebuilding or re-creating. In reconstructive microsurgery operations, the aim is to rebuild a tissue whose integrity, anatomy or function has been impaired in the body, using tissues transferred from another region under the microscope, together with their vessels and nerves.
Applications of Reconstructive Microsurgery
Replantation of severed limbs (hand, arm, finger, ear, scalp)
Nerve and vessel repair
Closure of all types of tissue defects
Reconstruction of the breast removed due to cancer
Reconstruction of the jaw
Replacement of leg and arm bones after tumour surgery
Treatment of facial paralysis
Free toe transfers
Treatment of lymphedema
Closure of open wounds
Closure of chronic wounds
