Vanguard Allure

Top Menu

  • Vanguard

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Allure Magazine
    • Features
    • Magazine
    • Profiles
  • Allure TV
  • Celebration
    • Fashion & Style
    • Weddings
    • Lifestyle
    • Events
  • Wellbeing
    • Allure Woman
    • Healthy Living
    • Beauty
  • Happiness
    • Food
    • Shopping
    • Travel
    • Relationships
    • Career
  • News
  • Vanguard

logo

Vanguard Allure

  • Home
  • Allure Magazine
    • Oluyemi Orija: Heartbeat For Indigent Inmates

      June 20, 2022
      0
    • Blessing Ifeoma Dim and Chigozie Celestine Orji's Wedding

      June 16, 2022
      0
    • Gbemisola Olowookere: Raising Uncommon Generation

      June 6, 2022
      0
    • Wendy Ologe: On Better Parenting

      May 30, 2022
      0
    • Behold Nollywood's Game Changing Producers

      May 15, 2022
      0
    • Faith Morey: Supermodel Living Her Dream

      May 9, 2022
      0
    • Linda Uneze: The Transformational Coach

      May 1, 2022
      0
    • Kate Henshaw: Fighting for Women’s Rights

      April 24, 2022
      0
    • King Hakbal: Styling Royalties

      April 17, 2022
      0
    • Features
    • Magazine
    • Profiles
  • Allure TV
  • Celebration
    • Fashion & Style
    • Weddings
    • Lifestyle
    • Events
  • Wellbeing
    • Allure Woman
    • Healthy Living
    • Beauty
  • Happiness
    • Food
    • Shopping
    • Travel
    • Relationships
    • Career
  • News
    • Late singer, Osinachi's children to testify against father in court

      June 22, 2022
      0
    • Blossom Chukwujekwu's ex, Maureen Esisi discloses they are not officially divorced

      June 22, 2022
      0
    • Fuel Scarcity: Lala Akindoju calls out Lagos State govt over nonchalant attitude ...

      June 21, 2022
      0
    • Yul Edochie

      Yul Edochie urge on Nigerians to desist from ethnic war-instigating utterances ahead ...

      June 20, 2022
      0
    • Judge's absence in court inhibits Osinachi's husband trial

      June 17, 2022
      0
    • Netflix announces ‘Squid Game’ reality show with $4.56m prize

      June 15, 2022
      0
    • Actor who won 2022 AMVCA, dies from fatal accident

      June 14, 2022
      0
    • Mercy Aigbe and Larrit's fight - read what transpired

      June 14, 2022
      0
    • Court adjusts date for Baba Ijesha’s sexual assault charge

      June 8, 2022
      0
  • Why I decided to beat up a tout for dragging my Agbádá — Actor Taiwo Hassan ‘Ogogo’ fights dirty with touts in Ilaro

  • You stress me out with your quietness – Daniel Etim’s wife celebrates him on his birthday

  • This is totally unacceptable – Evangelist Edet calls out singer Mercy Chinwo over her engagement

  • 9 nutrients in milk that should make you drink a glass everyday

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveals 7-year-old daughter has never been treated of malaria

Allure MagazineNews
Home›Allure Magazine›Man replaces lost thumb with big toe

Man replaces lost thumb with big toe

July 21,2017
Share:

By Osahon Ibizugbe

An Australian man whose thumb was severed in a cattle herding accident has had a big toe surgically removed and transplanted onto his hand to replace the lost digit.

Zac Mitchell was working on a remote cattle station in Western Australia state in April when his hand was kicked by a bull and thrust against a fence, slicing off his right thumb.

“My thumb was still hanging on the rail there when I got up off the ground,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“My boss looked down and saw the blood and asked me what was bleeding. I had a look at my hand and figured out pretty quick (that the thumb had been severed).”

With the nearest hospital five hours away, the 20-year-old cattle handler put the thumb on ice until he could receive treatment, but attempts to re-attach it were unsuccessful.

Mitchell was moved to Sydney Hospital’s specialist hand unit, where doctors decided that given the severity of his injury, a toe relocation was the best course of action.

“To recreate a thumb you can just use skin and bone, but that doesn’t work so well, so really the toe is just the best option by far — when it works well,” plastic surgeon Sean Nicklin, who performed the operation, told AFP Friday.

Nicklin said he carries out procedures using skin grafts from the toe to reconstruct fingers or thumbs every couple of years, but to remove and transplant the entire toe is “pretty unusual”.

 

TagsAllure VanguardAustraliaMitchellere-attachthumbtow
Previous Article

Legendary singer, Awilo features Tiwa Savage in ...

Next Article

Christian dad kills his teenage daughter over ...

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Related articles More from author

  • Allure MagazineNews

    Gyneacologist accused of drugging and sexually harrassing his patients

    August 30, 2016
    By allure1
  • Allure MagazineNews

    I won’t be pressurised to get married by society- Actress, Rita Dominic

    December 8, 2017
    By allure1
  • Allure MagazineNews

    Pastor Adeboye shares how a former military Head of state attempted to kill him

    December 13, 2016
    By allure1
  • Allure MagazineNews

    Will God forgive Diezani Alison-Madueke? – Don Jazzy asks

    July 28, 2017
    By allure1
  • News

    Olympic champion, Usain Bolt gives up football career ambition

    January 23, 2019
    By allure1
  • Allure MagazineNewsUncategorized

    John Okafor, Emeka Rollas, others celebrate with Prophet Fufeyin as he mark his 46th birthday (photos)

    February 20, 2018
    By allure1
0

  • lifestyleNews

    Yes I am a DEVIL – Annie Idibia replies Charles Idibia’s new call-out posts

  • Allure MagazineNews

    How rescued and rehabilitated Boko Haram bride flees home, returns to Sambisa forest

  • Allure MagazineNews

    High body count causes depression in women- Controversial relationship expert, Joro Olumofin

  • 5312
    Followers
  • 12744
    Likes

Timeline

  • June 25, 2022

    Why I decided to beat up a tout for dragging my Agbádá — Actor Taiwo Hassan ‘Ogogo’ fights dirty with touts in Ilaro

  • June 24, 2022

    You stress me out with your quietness – Daniel Etim’s wife celebrates him on his birthday

  • June 24, 2022

    This is totally unacceptable – Evangelist Edet calls out singer Mercy Chinwo over her engagement

  • June 24, 2022

    9 nutrients in milk that should make you drink a glass everyday

  • June 24, 2022

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveals 7-year-old daughter has never been treated of malaria

Categories

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Sign up to receive email updates and to hear what's going on with our magazine!

  • Recent

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • Actor Taiwo Hassan 'Ogogo' fights dirty with touts in Ilaro

    Why I decided to beat up a tout for dragging my Agbádá — Actor Taiwo ...

    By Ashimedua
    June 25, 2022
  • Daniel Etim’s wife celebrates him on his birthday

    You stress me out with your quietness – Daniel Etim’s wife celebrates him on his ...

    By Ashimedua
    June 24, 2022
  • Evangelist Edet calls out singer Mercy Chinwo over her engagement

    This is totally unacceptable – Evangelist Edet calls out singer Mercy Chinwo over her engagement

    By Ashimedua
    June 24, 2022
  • 9 nutrients in milk that should make you drink a glass everyday

    By joy onuorah
    June 24, 2022
  • Chioma Jesus, Sammie Okposo, Midnight Crew set for #THUGGLA2018

    By RITA
    April 24, 2018
  • American rapper, Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer prize for 2017 ‘Damn’ album

    By RITA
    April 17, 2018
  • Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti drops new album titled ‘Black Times’ 

    By RITA
    April 23, 2018
  • Actor, Yul Edochie declares intention to run for presidency

    By RITA
    April 23, 2018

Entertainment

  • June 24, 2022

    Nedu recounts worst dating experience with cheating lover

  • June 24, 2022

    Kiddwaya graduates from acting school in London

  • June 21, 2022

    Liberian President, George Weah joins ‘Buga Challenge’

  • June 20, 2022

    Living with Alibaba shaped my career – stand-up comedian, Igos

  • June 18, 2022

    Co-stars of Housewives of Lagos reality show, Iyabo Ojo, Caroline Danjuma trade words online

Follow us