Programme

1st International Conference on Extra-Thumb

• Date: 11 September 2010 (Saturday)
• Organizer: Hong Kong Society for Surgery of the Hand
• Invited Speakers:

• International:
• Goo-hyun BAEK (Korea)
• Shan-lin CHEN (Beijing, China)
• Alphonsus Khin-sze CHONG (Singapore)
• Emiko HORII (Japan)
• Hidehiko KAWABATA (Japan)
• Toshihiko OGINO (Japan)

• Local:
• Chi-wai CHAN
• Jack Chun-yiu CHENG
• Alex Kai-yiu CHOI
• Yuk-Yin Chow
• Pak-cheong HO
• Kan-hing MAK
• Ingrid Ngan
• Wing-Cheong Wu

• Venue:
• Lecture Theatre, HKEC Training Centre for Healthcare Management & Clinical Technology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong

• CME application: pending

• Program:
• 8:00 Registration and Reception

• 8:30 Opening Remarks

• 8:40 – 10:00 Symposium 1
• Epidemiology, pathogenesis/genetics and introduction of different classification systems
• Overview on the principle of surgical management of extra-thumb
• Type III extra thumb reconstruction : tips and pearls
• Type IV extra thumb reconstruction : tips and pearls
• Introduce a new kind butterfly flap for the Wassel IV ~ VI extrathumb

• 9:55-10:15 Tea break

• 10:15 – 12:30 Symposium II
• Modified Bilhaut-Cloquet operation for Wassel types II, III, and IV polydactyly of the thumb
• Aesthetic aspect of extra-thumb surgery – the use of dorsally based flap incision and pulp island flap
• Partial transposition of extra-digits: indications and outcome
• Polydactyly management in adult/late-presenter
• Revision of residual deformity
• Rehabilitation before and after the reconstructive surgery – from therapist perspective

• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

• 13:30 -17:00 Round Table Seminar

• Cases presentation and discussion
• How to correct the deviation of the thumb or other bone deformity
• How to get joint stability
• How to treat narrow first web space
• How to treat abnormal tendon/pulley system
• How to reconstruct an unclassifiable/atypical extra-thumb?
• How to manage delta phalanx in extra thumb

• 17:00 Closing Remarks

• 17:15 – 17:45  AGM of HKSSH (for HKSSH members only)

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