Footage has emerged from China of the aftermath of a complex operation whereby a surgeon attached a severed hand to a man's leg in order to keep it 'alive'. <br /><br />The video, filmed in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province last Wednesday, shows the man's hand stitched to his ankle. We also see him lying in hospital as well as x-rays of the initial injury. <br /><br />The man, whose surname is quoted in reports as Sun, severely injured his hand while "he was working." <br /><br />The injury restricted the amount of blood flowing to his hand for six hours before he got to hospital, so it was almost dead when he went into surgery. <br /><br />However, doctors were able to attach the hand to his leg to essentially revive it, with the view to reattaching it to his wrist in three weeks time.
