In the first of its kind operation in any government hospital in Chhattisgarh, a cancer affected boy’s leg was saved from being amputated by performing mega prosthesis limb salvage surgery.
A team of doctors in the Orthopedic Department of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Medical College Hospital here performed the major surgery, an official communication said on Friday.
Dr. Vineet Jain said the doctors removed the cancer (osteosarcoma) above the knee in the right leg of a 13-year-old child resident of Balodabazar by installing megaprosthesis (artificial organ made of metal).
The surgery is termed as megaprosthesis limb salvage surgery. He said the specialty is that only the cancerous bone is removed by surgery. The healthy muscles are saved. It helped to save the leg from being amputated.
He said the patient was earlier given chemotherapy to stop the spread of cancer.