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Complicated surgery performed on boy

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11-year-old boy had malignant tumour around his knee joint
Doctors avoid amputation, enable patient to wear prosthesis

HYDERABAD: Bone cancer surgeons of Kamineni Hospital, L. B. Nagar, on Wednesday said they have conducted a complicated surgery known as Rotationplasty and helped 11-year-old-Yashwanth Varma to recover from a malignant tumour around his knee joint.

The Rotationplasty surgery involves removal of the area of bone affected by the tumour. “Once the tumour is removed, the remaining leg is rotated 180 degrees and reattached to the thigh. The surgery gives an appearance of short leg with the foot turned backwards. The foot and ankle then function as knee joint, allowing the patient to wear prosthesis,” said Surgical Oncologist, Kamineni Hospital, Dr. Kishore B. Reddy.

The advantage of such a procedure, when compared to direct amputation, is that the patient will have a functioning joint at the level of the knee allowing for a smaller and better functioning prosthesis, doctors said.

In another surgery, the hospital doctors said that they have also removed a tumour, which had grown from left chest wall to the inside the left hand, from a 60-year-old patient-Pulayya Reddy.

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