Shannon Elliott’s life was changed in an instant last November when she was hit by an exploding M-80 firecracker that was thrown from a moving car. As a result, she lost a thumb and two fingers on her ...

Shannon Elliott had to make a tough - and unusual - decision. Would she give up a big toe so that she could have a thumb? Elliott was referred to Dr. Jason Ganz, a plastic and hand surgeon at Stony ...

In what's being considered a successful operation, doctors amputated a woman's big toe to replace her left thumb. Long Island woman Shannon Elliott lost three fingers in November after picking up an ...

And this little piggy turned into a thumb. A Long Island woman’s big toe will adapt to function as a thumb after doctors performed a rare transplant operation to replace the vital missing digit.