A year after physicians at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University implanted a telescoping prosthesis to replace the entire upper arm bone of a three-year-old boy, the boy is thriving, according to a release from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
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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