The artificial arm bone, implanted when the boy was age 3, replaces cancerous bone that would not allow the usual method of replacing only part of the bone with a prosthesis and cementing it to healthy bone.
The custom-made prosthetic bone implanted by orthopedic surgeon Lawrence Rinsky, MD, had to be small enough to fit in the boy, strong enough to last a lifetime and expandable to match the boy’s growth.
Read Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s release on its arm bone implant.
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