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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 Main muscles were all reattached to the newly fashioned joint.
After four months, the girl exercised on a stationary bike, and by nine months she had active movement of the hip. At the time of the report, four years and five months after the reconstruction, the girl is disease-free, the authors note.
The graft grew lengthwise and cross-sectionally. The head of the thighbone also grew.
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The researchers did a medical literature search and did not find any reports of the type of reconstruction they did in large joints of the lower limb.
The report is called "fascinating" by a medical oncologist familiar with the problem of Ewing's sarcoma.
"It's a remarkable kind of treatment," says Dr. Herman Kattlove, a medical oncologist and medical editor for the American Cancer Society. "What they did is almost miraculous. They had to keep the blood supply intact. The surgeons must be very skilled."
However, he adds a caveat: "We need to wait and see how it all turns out. I suspect she will need a hip replacement when she becomes full size. But still, she has a functioning leg for now and that is a plus." And hip replacement surgery, these days, is routinely done, he says.
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