BBC News - Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient: "An Austrian man has voluntarily had his hand amputated so he can be fitted with a bionic limb.
The patient, called 'Milo', aged 26, lost the use of his right hand in a motorcycle accident a decade ago.
After his stump heals in several weeks' time, he will be fitted with a bionic hand which will be controlled by nerve signals in his own arm.
The surgery is the second such elective amputation to be performed by Viennese surgeon Professor Oskar Aszmann.
The patient, a Serbian national who has lived in Austria since childhood, suffered injuries to a leg and shoulder when he skidded off his motorcycle and smashed into a lamppost in 2001 while on holiday in Serbia."
Thursday, May 19, 2011
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