Mr Donald Sammut FRCS (Plastic Surgery).
Surgery of the Hand
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
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PRESENTATIONS • Go to Publications • Go to Teaching Calendar
Regular invitation lectures at Instructional Courses, workshops and meetings
in past years have generally not been included.
1. "Primary Palmaris Longus Transfer as an Opponensplasty in Carpal Tunnel Release"
D. SAMMUT, G. Foucher
Presented to the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, London, November 19892. "Algodystrophie: Approche Pluridisciplinaire. Traitement Chirurgical,
Orthopédique, Psychologique.
A propos de 200 cas"
200 cases of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. An account of surgical, orthopaedic
and psychological management.
A.DidierJean, G. Foucher, S. Ehrler, F. Marin Braun, D. SAMMUT
Presented to the winter meeting of the French Hand Society (G.E.M.) at Paris, France May 19893. "Free vascularised transfer of joints to the hand: a series of 25 cases"
D.SAMMUT, G. Foucher, N. Citron
Presented to the spring meeting of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Bristol, May 19914. The finger dorsal transposition flap revisited
D. SAMMUT, J.S. Watson
Presented to the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Winter meeting, London, November 19925. A new approach to free phalangeal transfer in symbrachydactyly.
M. Cadier, D.SAMMUT
Third Symposium on Congenital Malformations of the Upper limb, Milan, Italy, June 19976. The Bone tie: A new method of fixation of difficult phalangeal fractures
D SAMMUT
International Federation for Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Vancouver, May 19987. A new approach to exposure of the distal phalanx and attachment of flexor tendon
graft and historical review of available methods.
S. Wilson, D SAMMUT
British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Winter meeting, Sheffield, 28th-29th April 20018. Hand Trauma; Assessment, indications and principles of reconstruction
D. SAMMUT
Keynote speech at the Annual meeting of the British Association of Hand Therapists. September 20019. A new technique for Dynamic Mapping of palmar forces
S. Hoult, A Ninkovas, A J L Harrison, D. SAMMUT
Winter meeting, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Edinburgh, October 200210. Reanimation of the Claw Hand - A palmar approach
D SAMMUT
FESSH meeting Glasgow, June 2006; 10.1016/jhsb.2006.03.014
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PUBLICATIONS
Chapters in books/ Invited articles in peer-reviewed journals
1. ‘Indications in the management of fingertip injuries’
G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT
Chapter in multi-author book entitled: ‘Fingertip and Nailbed Injuries’
(Group d´étude de la main - Monograph. English edition.)
Editor: G. Foucher
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 1991
ISBN 0-443-04108-32. Fingertip injuries; A review of indications and current methods of management
D. SAMMUT
Current Orthopaedics: Vol 16/4 pp 271–2853. ‘Fingertip Injuries; techniques of reconstruction’
D.SAMMUT
In ‘Surgical Techniques in Orthopaedics and Traumatology’
Editions Elsevier 20054. Contributor: 'Multiple Choice Questions in Plastic Surgery'
Editors: K Shokrollahi, I Whitaker, H Laing
TFM Publishing, 2009
ISBN 978-1-903378-66-3
Publications in Peer-Reviewed journals
1. Le Syndrome du Tunnel du Cubital au Coude: Résultats d´une série de 51 Epitrochléectomies
Ulnar nerve compression at the elbow: A series of 51 epitrochlectomies
F. Marin Braun, G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT, M. Jessel
Annals of Hand Surgery, 19892. Algodystrophie: Approche Pluridisciplinaire. Traitment Chirurgical, Orthopédique, Psychologique.
A propos de 200 cas.
200 cases of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.
An account of surgical, orthopaedic and psychological management.
A. DidierJean, G. Foucher, S. Ehrler, F. Marin Braun, D. SAMMUT
Annals of Hand Surgery, 19893. Free vascularised toe-joint transfer in hand reconstruction: a series of 25 patients
G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT, N. Citron
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, 1990; vol 6 (3): 201-2074. Peroperative cooling and storage of amputated digits
G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, 1990; vol 6 (1): 715. Transfer of a composite island homodigital distal interphalangeal joint to replace
the proximal interphalangeal joint. Technique and case report.
G. Foucher, E. Lenoble, D. SAMMUT
Annals of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery, 1990; vol 9 (5): 369-3756. Indications and results of skin flaps in the management of painful digital neuromata.
G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT, P. Gréant, F. Marin Braun, S. Ehrler, N. Buch
British Journal of Hand Surgery, 1991; vol 16B (1): 25-297. Primary Palmaris Longus transfer as an opponensplasty in carpal tunnel release. A series of 73 cases
G. Foucher, C. Malizos, D. SAMMUT, F. Marin Braun, J. Michon
British Journal of Hand Surgery, 1991; vol 16B (1): 56-608. Le transfert articulaire vascularisé en îlot composite en chirurgie de la main.
A propos d'une série de 16 observations.
Compound island vascularized joint transfer in hand surgery. A series of 16 cases
G. Foucher, N. Citron, D. SAMMUT
Rev Chirurgie Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot., 1991; vol 77 (1): 34-419. Le Lambeau 'Escalateur' dans le traitement de l´Ongle en griffe
The 'Escalator' flap in the treatment of hang nail
G. Foucher, E. Lenoble, D. Goffin, D. SAMMUT
Annales de Chirurgie Plastique et Esthetique 1991; vol 36 (1): 51-5310. Réparation des Tendons Fléchisseurs en Zone 1 par la 'Fixation en Rappel':
Résultats d´une série de 77 cas
Repair of the flexor digitorum profundus and the flexor pollicis longus by the 'Rope down' technique.
Results of a series of 77 cases
F. Marin Braun, G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT, N. Buch Jaeger
Annals of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery, 1991; vol 10 (1): 13-2111. Neuritis and neuroma of the sensory branches of the radial nerve. A series of 44 cases.
G Foucher, P Greant, D Sammut, N Buch-Jaeger
Ann Chir Main Memb Super. 1991; 10(2):108-1212. Aesthetic improvement of the nail by the 'Illusion' technique in partial toe
transfer for thumb reconstruction
G. Foucher, D. SAMMUT
Annals of Plastic Surgery, 1992; vol 28 (2): 195-19913. A post operative regime after digital flexor tenolysis: A series of 72 patients.
G. Foucher, E. LeNoble, K. Ben Youssef, D. SAMMUT
Journal of Hand Surgery (British Vol), 1993; vol18(1):35-4014. The Hueston flap in reconstruction of fingertip loss; results in a series of 72 patients.
G Foucher, M Dallasera, B Tilquin, E LeNoble, D SAMMUT
J Hand Surg [Am]. 1994 19(3): 508-1515. Selective replantation with ulnar translocation in multidigital amputations
D. Elliot, M. Henley, D. SAMMUT
Br. J. Plast Surg. 1994; 47 (5):318-2316. The Bone Tie: A new device for interfragmentary fixation.
D. SAMMUT, D. Evans
British Journal of Hand Surgery, 1999; 24(1):64-6917. An Aid to digit replantation: A new use for the Harris Silicone Tile
C. Estela, D. SAMMUT
British Journal of Hand Surgery: April 1999, vol 24B: pp 25118. Flexor tendon graft attachment; a review of methods and a newly modified tendon graft attachment
S. Wilson, D SAMMUT
The Journal of Hand Surgery, British & European ; vol 28:2:116 –12019. The Huber opponensplasty; A modification in technique and review of methods.
N. Cawrse, D. SAMMUT
The Journal of Hand Surgery, British & European; vol 28B:3:233-23720. Re-animation of the intrinsic minus hand - a new approach
D SAMMUT in preparation21. The functional anatomy and assessment of the extensor mechanism in the hand
H Giele, D SAMMUT
Solicited article for British Journal of Hand Therapy - submitted
Teaching Calendar
National and International Teaching / lecturing and examining commitments:2008 Teaching Calendar (View)
2009 Teaching Calendar (View)
2010 Teaching Calendar
20th - 27th February 2010
Kathmandu, Nepal
Lecture Programme on Hand Surgery to Surgeons18th-19th March
BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery
Examiner24th- 25th April 2010
Guy’s Hospital Anatomy school
Windsor Anatomy at King’s: Upper limb dissection course
Organiser and Faculty5th May 2010
Lecture
‘Skin Cover in the Hand’
Orthopaedic Department NOC Oxford11th – 12th November 2010
Instructional course demonstration of Skin Flaps in the hand
Cadaver dissection
BSSH Winter meeting, London2nd - 3rd December 2010
Instructional Cadaver course. Faculty
Tendon Transfers; Flexor tendon surgery; Skin flaps
Cadaver Lab, Arezzo, Italy