In a first in Odisha, the orthopedic department of AIIMS Bhubaneswar has successfully performed a total femur replacement of a 30-year-old man.
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In a first in Odisha, the orthopedic department of AIIMS Bhubaneswar has successfully performed a total femur replacement of a 30-year-old man.
A team of doctors led by Dr. Sujit Kumar Tripathy, Additional Professor of the Department of Orthopedics operated on a 30-year young man from Kendrapara district who had a huge tumour in the left thigh bone.
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He was suffering from a primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the thigh bone. He had already undergone two surgeries previously in 2018 and 2019 that were inadequate to remove the tumor completely.
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The young man subsequently developed a recurrence of the tumor and received chemotherapy prior to the current surgery. The tumor was close to the blood vessels. After a delicate and complicated surgery, the whole of the tumor was excised in toto and the total femur mega prosthesis was implanted. The complex surgery took around 4 hours.
This was the first surgery of total femur replacement in Odisha. The post-surgery patient is fine, said Dr. Sujit Tripathy.
However, the patient has to receive further chemotherapy and the postoperative period needs vigilant management.
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