Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has named Austin T. Fragomen, MD, as Chief of the Limb Lengthening and Complex ...

In reconstruction, the question is not whether a limb can be saved. It is whether the life attached to it can be lived. L. Scott Levin, MD, chair emeritus of orthopedic surgery and professor of ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery has appointed Austin Fragomen, MD, as chief of its Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service, one of the leading programs of its kind ...

SAN FRANCISCO - April is Limb Loss Awareness Month. A first-ever two-part procedure known as osseointegration was piloted at the Veteran’s Affairs Health Care System in San Francisco. The procedure ...

Hyderabad: A groundbreaking microvascular replantation surgery was recently performed at a city hospital, even though the patient arrived after the critical "golden hour." The complex procedure, ...

Radiotherapy in high-grade limb STS patients increases short- and long-term wound complications, affecting healing and care duration. Neoadjuvant radiotherapy leads to longer hospital stays and higher ...

More people than ever before are making themselves taller with surgery. But while this can improve lives, some are left with ...

A Colorado boy is now recovering from his seventh surgery. Over eight years ago, his father tried to kill both of them by crashing a car in Centennial. Isaiah Weitzel was just two years old at the ...

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CENTENNIAL, Colorado (KCNC) — A Colorado boy is now recovering from his seventh surgery. Over eight years ago, his father tried to kill both of them by crashing a car in Centennial. Isaiah Weitzel was ...