Surgeons Amputated a 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient's Leg and Reattached It Backwards

[rangerrebew]

Surgeons Amputated a 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient's Leg and Reattached It Backwards

The procedure is rare but serves an important purpose.
By Elizabeth Narins   
Apr 27, 2018
 

After British 7-year-old Amelia Eldred was diagnosed with a cancerous femur tumor last summer that would typically call for a leg amputation, the active little girl was determined to dance again.
Amelia before her diagnosis.

But an amputation above the knee would sacrifice her knee joint, which plays an important role in operating a prosthetic leg. So, in January 2018, when doctors removed Amelia's infected thigh bone, they saved her lower leg, rotated the limb 180 degrees, and reattached just her calf and foot to her upper thigh.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a20088312/rotationplasty-amelia-eldred/

[Victoria33]

This is a plus for British surgeons to do this.  Since my son has lived in London for 25 years I know how their medical care works.  The parents must have had individual insurance for this to happen.  They have two plans there, the free plan which most have and the "pay for it' individual insurance.  They have two different type hospitals.  The free hospital where they are in group rooms and the individual hospitals where each has a private room.  The doctors give time to the free clinics and have a private practice for those who have individual insurance.  The patient gets right in to the doc if they have private insurance and have to get in line and wait for free service.