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Susumu Tamai is a Japanese orthopedic and hand surgeon associated with the early development of clinical microsurgery. In 1965, Tamai and Shigeo Komatsu performed a successful replantation of a completely amputated thumb using microsurgical vascular repair. His subsequent work in digit and limb repl...
Harold E. Kleinert was an American surgeon associated with Louisville, Kentucky, whose work helped establish modern hand and microsurgery. He advanced primary repair of injured flexor tendons and postoperative mobilization methods intended to preserve tendon movement while healing. Kleinert also con...
Ronald A. Malt was an American surgeon renowned for his pioneering work at Massachusetts General Hospital. He achieved international recognition in 1962 by successfully performing the world’s first human limb replantation. The procedure involved reattaching a severed arm to a twelve-year-old boy. Hi...
James R. Urbaniak is an American orthopedic surgeon associated with Duke University and known for work in hand surgery and microsurgery. His clinical and academic contributions include the replantation of amputated digits and the use of free vascularized tissue transfer, procedures that depend on jo...
