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I Page A12-The Chronicle, Thursc Microsurg Patrice Woodruff is one 8-year-old w ho has much to look forward to. She is awaiting with great anticipation tfart r\f fhirH orarlp at Kimberley Park Elementary Alternative School this fall. And she can hardly wait to once more play hide-and-seek with her 2-year-old brother, B.J., and to sing with a group called "Love" at the Winston Lake YMCA. But what she anticipates more than anything else now is that soon, for the first time in her life, she'll be able to firmly grasp and hold things with her right hand. Patrice, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woodruff, went home from.Baptist Hospital after undergoing microsurgery to implant a thumb on her right hand. The thumb was fashioned from part of the big toe of her right foot. According to Dr. Andrew Koman, a member of the team which performed the toe-to-hand transfer on July,31, Patrice was born with all or part of the fingers on her right hand missing except for the little finger. With the addition of the thumb, she will have the ability to grasp and . firmly hold items between her thumb and little finger. Her missing fingers were the result of a birth defect called constricting band syndrome, in which tissue which originally was part of the amniotic sac surrounding the fetus wraps around and constricts portions of the unborn infant. The constriction, which most often affects the fingers or toes^ can cause amputation long before the baby is bom. Birth defect specialists at the Bowman Gray/Baptist Hospital Medical Center calculate that the syndrome, which is not genetic, Elaine Cole has birthday gathering Mrs. Elaine Cole of 1405 Patterson Ave. celebrated her birthday on Friday, Aug. 23. She was joined by many friends who came from as far away as Yonkers, I N.Y. i i 1 ?i 1 i i itiiud anu iuvcu unci cnjoyea good food and company during Mrs. Cole's birthday gathering. Guests at the birthday celebration included: Mrs. Julie Richardson of Yonkers, Mrs. Lillie Massey, Barbara Watts, Richard Cheek, Charles Whitaker, Robert Smith, Haywood Watts, Roosevelt Nelson, all of High Point, Mrs. Mattie Harris, Shiley Davis, Raymond Johnson, Leon Campbell, all of Greensboro, Mrs. Sedalia Mullins, Marie Davis and Kenneth Price, all of Reidsville. \ \ Hostesses for the birthday gathering were: Mrs. Rochelle Pinson, Lacy Dillard, Dorothy Murray, Mary Cockerham, Mary Cutherell and Ernestine Cremedy. Hosts for the party were: James Webster, Robert Smith, Haywood Watts and Roosevelt Nelson. Associated Artists announces winners The Juried Exhibition for the Photographic Arts will award $10,000 in prizes and announce the winners for National Aperture '85 on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m. in Winston Square. Photographers from 30 states will - receive their awards and preview the exhibition. I Winners will be selected from 403 works by 233 artists representing 30 states. National Aperture '85 is cosponsored by Associated Artists Inc., The Arts Council Inc., The North Carolina Arts Council and The Grassroots Arts Bill. More than 20 corporate sponsors contributed the $10,000 in prizes. lay, August 29, 1985 * ;ery gives cl affects about one infant for every 5,000 live births. M rs. Woodruff said of her daughter, "To Patrice, the problem with her right hand hasn't been a handicap. We never told her that she was handicapped. We wanted her to adjust in her own way and she did. She was putting on her own clothes when she was just 2 years old." One concern Patrice's parents have is that the surgery on the child's foot might impair her ability to dance. She is involved in jazz, ballet and tap dancing. But, Koman' explains, because the big toe on Patrice's left foot is shorter than normal, taking part of the big toe on the right foot to fashion a thumb should not adversely affect the function or appearance of her right foot. He explains that while digit transplants are not new, it is Reaching Out Members of the Black Volunteer County, left to right, are: Dr. Myrr Grisard and Honey Noah. The gi end of August (photo by Art Blu m SEMI 14 f I NBr. wR?P^^^^Wpf^ \2 %P&r} /^3 ^v .JflH SatlafacUon guarantaad or your monay back ZSaarn, Roabuck and Co., 1\ T tiild chance somewhat unusual to perform one on a child and especially on a child who was born with the syndrome. "Toe-to-hand transfer is considered a complex and difficult operation," he explained. The medical center here is one of fewer than 30 centers in the na- ? tion which routinely do that type of surgery. The success of Patrice's surgery is partially due to the experience the medical center has in caring for so many patients who need microsurgery, Koman said. Microsurgery is the use of a microscope to aid in repairing delicate nerves, blood vessels and other tissues. A child Patrice's size has vessels, nerves and other tissue only 60 to 70 percent the size of an adult's. Microsurgery is used in nine surgical sections at the medical WEM I Recruitment Task Force for Big ia Williams, Elaine Pitt, chairmar uup is looking for aju black vo 0). m ft ft 3ft V w ft Jk ^ ^P* M mm m jl 9P^ jH JBUkbSh^B^ SI *C: Burlington Charlotte. Cc Hickory, High Point. Jac C: Columbia Florence, Myri M5 Danville Lynchburg. Roa WVt Barboursviile. Beckiey, E V * to hold on r center by various microsurgery teams. Doctors at the center pet- I form transplantations both on patients like Patrice, who have a W\ congenital problem, and on I trauma victims who require reimplantation of amputated digits and arms. Though the actual digit I I transplantation requires timeconsuming and exacting microsurgery, Koman said that the success of such a procedure is largely determined by how well the limb is prepared before Ig transplantation and how well the site where the limb came from is I repaired. Without that repair on Patrice's right foot, the foot i_i i ?? ??? ... cuuiu nun ana walking couia De H impaired. "When doing surgery like this, you don't want to upset the dynamic balance of the foot," Koman said. Brothers/Big Sisters of Forsyth I if Jim Conrad, Betty Hanes, Bert < lunteers for the program by the Jb IIMMf IkiSAiMl irts Wed., Aug.28th, End* Sat. B^Pkl'v'i'ltt v ^MI1 '*' ifiiimt^f | f1 NOP YOU* NURIIT IIAN RSTAIL STORK incord Durham, FayetteviHe. Gastonla, Goldsboro. Graanabc ksonville Raleigh. Rocky Mount, Wilmington, Winston-Salarr He Beach, Rock Hill noke kVi Ashland iiuefieid. 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