A Colorado boy is now recovering from his seventh surgery. Over eight years ago, his father tried to kill both of them by ...
“He was creating a line of perforations circling the femur to make it easier to break the strongest bone in the body, akin to ...
Cost: Around $100,000. Surgery. Pain. Months of recovery. What might seem crazy to some — cosmetic leg lengthening — is a growing business for Debiparshad, Dr. D to patients and staff ...
Background To evaluate the efficacy of early versus delayed introduction of lengthening (ie, eccentric strengthening) exercises in addition to an established rehabilitation programme on return to ...
Two surgical bowel-lengthening procedures can be used in these patients: the Bianchi procedure, devised in 1980; and serial transverse enteroplasty (STEP), developed in 2003. Sudan and colleagues ...