3-year-old gets prosthetic arm bone
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 21:56
in Health & Medicine
Surgeons implant a telescoping artificial bone to replace the boy's humerus, which had to be removed because of a rare cancer. The prosthesis can be expanded as he grows. In what they called a medical first in a toddler, surgeons at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have implanted a telescoping artificial prosthesis in the arm of a 3-year-old to replace a humerus...
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