AIIMS surgeons successfully reattach a man's amputated arm in a groundbreaking microsurgical procedure, marking a state first.

Vijayawada: The plastic surgery department at AIIMS Mangalagiri has successfully performed a trans-humeral (mid-arm) amputation replantation, marking .

The most advanced new surgical procedure, AMI, addresses proprioception. This refers to the ability to sense position and movement. In an intact human arm or leg, muscles work in pairs. When a bicep ...

Losing an arm cuts more than muscle and bone. It also severs the easy, wordless link between what you want to do and what your hand can actually do. For many people with prosthetic arms, that link ...

Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t. This was partly because they confronted two new ...