Abstract

Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation unit. Patient: A 40-year-old man (military service member) with a right traumatic thumb amputation at the metacarpal joint. Case Description: The patient was injured from an improvised explosive device. He sustained a traumatic amputation of the right thumb at the metacarpal joint, a transected left distal superficial femoral artery, a left open distal femoral fracture, and multiple extremity soft tissue injuries. A surgical bypass graft of his left superficial femoral artery was done and the left femur was repaired via intermedullary nailing.

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