When the dancer walked off stage and took off her artificial leg, all the dancers were surprised to see that her right leg had disappeared from the knee, and that in its place, there was a foot!

For Gabi, the dancer, osteosarcoma was almost the ultimate punishment. When clinical tests found his osteosarcoma near his knee, it was a death sentence.

 

 

To save Gabi's life, most doctors suggested that amputated her leg. But It was hard for Gabi to accept that, for her, losing her leg meant she would never be able to go on stage again. But if you have limb salvage surgery, you still face big problems. The idea behind limb salvage surgery is to remove the diseased bone and replace the defect with something else. But Gabi's only nine, and her bones are still growing. Removing the affected limb means removing the epiphysis, which cannot grow as fast as a healthy limb. Even if the leg survives, it will eventually face two long legs and one short. Can the problem of long legs and short legs of patients with limb preservation be solved manually? In fact, there is a clinical approach that uses retractable implants to adjust the length of a patient's implant.

 

 

Unfortunately, the technology is not ready yet. In actual clinical practice, a large number of soft tissues will be removed during tumor surgery, resulting in long-term loosening of the tumor prosthesis, resulting in poor attachment and stability of the prosthesis. This means that after 20 years, 80 per cent need replacement, and the second operation is much more difficult than the first. After many setbacks, Gabi's doctors found an ancient and rare treatment. He thought the operation would save the little girl who loved to dance!

 

 

Replacing the knee of one foot is a procedure called rotatory plasty, where the affected area is removed as well as the knee, leaving the arteries, veins and nerves intact, and the lower part of the calf is rotated 180 degrees counterclockwise with the upper part of the thigh. The idea is for the ankle to replace the function of the knee, which is equivalent to amputation and replacing it with a knee joint. The essence of rotational plastic surgery is to change the amputation knee joint to amputation knee joint, retain longer limbs, increase the movable arm of the hip joint, so that walking more energy saving. And the heel skin is tough and wear-resistant, more suitable for the prosthetic cavity, so the function is far better than knee amputation. As it turned out, her legs were functioning almost normally. She took part in many ballet competitions and achieved excellent results.

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