Reconstruction, decision-making, and long-term outcomes
Two (Day 1 & 2)
11 total
Dr Takagi (Japan)
Congenital differences of the hand sit at the intersection of paediatric orthopaedics, plastic surgery, and developmental biology. The choices a surgeon makes in infancy and early childhood shape decades of function — get the timing wrong on a thumb hypoplasia reconstruction and the patient lives with the consequence for life.
PULS 2026 dedicates portions of both days to congenital reconstruction. Day 1 covers the foundational anomalies: thumb hypoplasia, syndactyly, macrodactyly, radial club hand, and the spectrum of crooked fingers. Day 2 broadens to arthrogryposis, multiple hereditary exostoses, paediatric bone cysts, and trigger thumb — the conditions where the question is not just how to operate but whether to operate at all.
Featured international voice is Dr Takehiko Takagi from Tokyo Medical and Dental University. The syndactyly debate between Dr Kannan K. Kumar and Dr Hari Venkatramani — graft versus graftless — promises to surface the technical trade-offs honestly.