UT Southwestern Medical Center’s specialists are recognized as leaders in the many aspects of plastic surgery involving the hand. At home in one of the nation's leading medical and research facilities, UT Southwestern's physicians are dedicated to providing each of our patients with an individual, personalized approach to treatment.

Plastic surgery can help restore or improve function and appearance of the hand in patients with conditions such as birth defects, injuries such as wrist fractures and diseases such as arthritis and Dupuytren's contracture.

Some of the conditions we treat include:

• Complex traumatic injuries to the tendon, nerve, vascular structures, fingertip, as well as amputations
• Replantation and revascularization for amputations involving the digits, hand and upper extremity
• Brachial plexus injury
• Peripheral nerve injury
• Soft tissue reconstruction with local or free tissue flaps and of complicated wounds from cancer, trauma or infection
• Volkmann's ischemic contracture reconstruction
• All fractures and dislocations distal to the radius
• Wrist pain
• Tendon transfers
• Reconstruction of joint deformities, including rheumatoid, post-traumatic and osteoarthritic
• Dupuytren's contracture
• Thumb reconstructions including toe-to-thumb transfers
• Pollicization
• Reconstruction due to hand and upper extremity tumors
• Ganglion cysts
• DeQuervain's tenosynovitis
• Tennis elbow
• Compression neuropathies
• Congenital hand deformities
• Vascular malformations (AVMs and hemangiomas)
• Comprehensive hand rejuvenation