Hand Surgery Department of Xuzhou Renci Hospital is a key clinical discipline in Xuzhou City, which is also the Chairman Unit of Xuzhou Medical Association's Hand Surgery Committee. The department has 6 chief doctors, 15 attending doctors and more than 20 doctors working in the Inpatient Department, which is reasonable in terms of talent structure and excellent in professional quality. Key doctors have successively been sent to some renowned hospitals, including Huashan Hospital and Beijing Jishuitan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, etc for further studies.

In August 2014, Xuzhou Renci Hospital signed a contract with Hand Surgery Department of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital to establish the "Technical Union of Xuzhou Renci Hospital in Hand Surgery Department of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital" to realize the complementary advantages of medical resources.

In June 2018, Xu Lei's Workshop of Shanghai Huashan Hospital was set up in Xuzhou Renci Hospital. Some experts who are proficient in hand surgery from Beijing Jishuitan Hospital and Shanghai Huashan Hospital took turns to come to the hospital to provide outpatient service and surgery for patients together with the hand surgery experts from Renci Hospital, so as to benefit patients in Xuzhou and surrounding areas to the greatest extent.

Hand Surgery Department has undertaken a number of municipal scientific research projects and obtained a number of scientific research results. Every year, more than 10 core journals from statistical sources and international SCI papers are published. The article written by Director Zheng Dawei - The Surgical Method of Applying the Bilobed Free Flaps Pedicled with the Supracarpal Cutaneous Branch of Ulnar Artery was published in American Journal of Hand Surgery, which was highly praised worldwide.

Hand Surgery Department of Xuzhou Renci Hospital has outstanding innovations in the field of replantation of severed limbs and reconstruction of thumb and fingers, which has reached the domestic advanced level in the treatment of large-area defect and nonunion of limbs, limb preservation of limb on the verge of amputation, hand function reconstruction, diagnosis and treatment of peripheral nerve injury, etc. Meanwhile, it is a large-scale hand microsurgery discipline with prominent academic influence in China.

At present, Hand Surgery Department of Xuzhou Renci Hospital is divided into four sub-specialties including Upper Limb Deformity Correction Surgery Department (Hand Surgery Area I), Bone and Joint Minimally Invasive Repair Surgery Department (Hand Surgery Area II), Peripheral Nerve Repair Surgery Department(Hand Surgery Area III) and Microsurgical Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Department(Hand Surgery Area IV). Each year, more than 10,000 patients are admitted and more than 12,000 operations are performed each year.

Scopes of diagnosis and treatment for each sub-department are listed as follows:

The main treatment scopes of Upper Limb Deformity Correction Surgery Department (Hand Surgery Area I) cover various types of congenital deformities such as multiple fingers (toes), syndactyly (toes), split hands, flexion deformity of fingers (toes), macrodactyly (toes), hypoplasia of fingers (toes), and constricted fingers (toes) and so on. The department also includes various acquired deformities caused by trauma or other reasons, such as finger loss, hammer finger, button deformity, claw-shaped hand deformity, palmar aponeurosis contracture, stiff hand after hand burns and scalds, etc.

The main treatment scopes of Bone and Joint Minimally Invasive Repair Surgery Department (Hand Surgery Area II) cover distal ulnar and radius fractures, wrist and metacarpal fractures, carpal nonunion, osteonecrosis, wrist dislocation, wrist ligament injury, wrist nerve entrapment, stenosing tenosynovitis of radial styloid process, intersection syndrome, wrist cyst, tumor, ulnar impingement syndrome, rheumatoid wrist joint. Meanwhile, the department is also proficient in the repair of distal ulnar and radius fractures, carpal and phalangeal fractures and carpal and phalangeal ligaments based on the concept of minimally invasive surgery, with small incision or closed surgery. Moreover, wrist arthroscopy has been maturely used to treat wrist fractures, osteonecrosis and wrist ligament injuries.

The main treatment scopes of Peripheral Nerve Repair Surgery Department(Hand Surgery Area III) cover upper, middle, lower trunk and whole brachial plexus injury, injury of upper limb axillary nerve, musculocutaneous nerve, radial nerve, ulnar nerve and median nerve; Injury of sciatic nerve, femoral nerve and common peroneal nerve of lower limbs, peripheral nerve entrapment. Meanwhile, the department carries out exploration and release of supraclavicular brachial plexus, nerve transfer of accessory nerve, intercostal nerve, contralateral C7, phrenic nerve, etc. to treat brachial plexus root avulsion injury, functional reconstruction in the late stage of nerve injury, shoulder abduction, elbow flexion, wrist extension and finger extension, finger flexion reconstruction, etc.

The main treatment scopes of Microsurgical Repair and Reconstruction Surgery Department(Hand Surgery Area IV) covers the repairing and reconstruction of limb tissue defects and body surface organ defects by using microsurgical technology. Including free flap and composite tissue flap free transplantation to repair skin and soft tissue defects, bone defects, tendon defects and body surface organ reconstruction after trauma, etc.

In Renci Hospital, hypertrophic scar, scar contracture and keloid after limb trauma can be treated by plastic surgery combined with injection, drugs and laser.

The technology of Plastic Surgery Department was used to remove limb tumors and tumor-like lesions so that the secondary defects could be aesthetically repaired.