Dolph Houben

Lay-out & Print: Ridderprint | www.ridderprint.nl © Copyright 2020: Rudolph Henricus Houben, Voorhout, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, by photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. This thesis was performed at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Microvascular Research Laboratory, Division of Hand Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States of America. The research in this thesis was embedded in Amsterdam Movement Sciences Research Institute, at Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location VUmc, The Netherlands. Financial support for this thesis was provided by: TBMA Europe, Scarabee Sassenheim, Docentenmarktplaats Groningen, NVPC, JVPC, AMS and the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center.