Thanks to a creative surgeon , a Brazilian factory worker will get to keep his hand after endure a terrible work accident that ripped nearly all of the tegument off his left over appendage .
or else of amputating the limb , The Independentreportsthat surgeon at Santa Otilia hospital in southern Brazil sewed 42 - class - old Carlos Mariotti ’s hand into his stomach , and pass over it with a flap of protective peel . There it will remain for about six weeks until it develops new tissue and tendons that can encounter a skin graft .
Mariotti serve as a machine yield operator at the Zettapack Plastic mill , close to his household in Orleans in southerly Brazil . While operating a political machine that makes coils , his manus was trail into the machine . The de - gloving hurt exposed Mariotti ’s bones and tendons ; Dr. feared that the manus would become infected , and that the tissue and tendon would rot aside . The flesh needed to bring around — and the only place in the dead body doctors could go Mariotti ’s whole deal , they say , was his belly .
Luckily , the unlawful surgery was a success . ‘ When I woke up from the operation I did n’t know whether it was still there , ” Mariotti toldThe Independent . “ I could n’t believe it when they tell they had tuck my hand inside me . ”
Mariotti is still recover at Santa Otília Hospital . To keep his hand from becoming stiff , he has been instructed to move it gently around inside his abdomen . “ It ’s a really weird feeling assay to wiggle my finger inside my soundbox and creepy-crawly seeing my bay window protrude slightly as I prod around , ” Mariotti allege .
Mariotti lose his power and midway fingers in the stroke , and Dr. say he ’ll never regain full movement of his leftover hand , Inside Edition reports . Still , Mariotti is thankful that surgeons were capable to preserve the limb , so he can hold utensil , ride , and dress himself without any help .
While Mariotti ’s operation sound outlandish , it ’s been successfully do before . In 2015 , operating surgeon in Chinagrafted a man ’s handto his scummy correct sura after it was amputated in a manufactory accident . After its tendons and nerves cure , they reattached it to his arm .
[ h / tThe Independent ]
