Ludhiana: A town hospital has ran an effective corrective operation of a-year-old son of Haibowal who had three legs.
Dr Baldeep Singh of the hospital explained,”The individual is currently a one-year-old boy that had been attracted into the Immunology out-patient department (OPD) with an NGO.
He needed a birth defect–an extra rudimentary leg in the back as well as the two ordinary ones.
The next leg was neurologically complete though the power at that leg has been decreased.” “This’tripod deformity’ is apparently because of a parasitic Siamese twin, and the system of that degenerated departing the leg supporting in another twin, which garnished with the rear of the child.
The patient had experienced a MRI scan that revealed the existence of femur tibia fibula and the knee joint at the extra leg,” explained the paediatrician.
He added after attaining this identification, a determination has been made by the specialist group of physicians in the hospital to eliminate this particular leg.
The hospital authorities explained that the operation required a standardised strategy with the participation of four divisions.
The neurosurgery group was led by Dr RK Kaushal, orthopaedic group by Dr Mohd Yamin, paediatric surgery by Dr RJ Singh and plastic surgery from Dr Ravinder Tah.
“The surgery lasted for more than 6 hours where the rudimentary leg has been discharged from the nervous plexus, amputated and the skin flaw was shut,” said the hospital police.
Dr Kaushal explained,”There has been a spinal cable connection with this next leg having a connected meningomyelocele.
The MMC was mended and the neural links detached closely.
The individual is now at the paediatric ICU as well as regaining.
This was among the rarest and hardest cases I’ve observed in my profession.”
City docs’ team Eliminates third leg of Haibowal Child
