Limb Salvage of
a Massive Tibial Bone Defect in a Child
Doctor: S. Robert Rozbruch
Patient: Lansana
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NEW! Follow up video of Lansana, now a competitive high school basketball player about to go off to college.
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Lansana
at the age of 6 was bit by a snake while escaping death during
an attack on his village in Sierra Leone, Africa. This led to
infection and massive bone loss of his tibia and entire ankle
joint.
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He
was brought to the US by an oral surgeon who was visiting the
area to do volunteer work.
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He
underwent treatment with the Ilizarov method for gradual correction
of the deformity, bone transport and ankle fusion to fill
in the defect, and additional bone lengthening.
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total, 23 cm of lengthening was done in stages.
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