Woman's 'Dying' Fingers Saved by Nerve Surgery

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

A woman's "dying" fingertips — which had turned black and scaly, and were covered in dead tissue — were saved when she had surgery on the nerves along her spine, according to a new case report.

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