LUDHIANA: A town hospital ran an effective corrective operation of a 1-year-old boy of Haibowal who had a leg.
Dr Baldeep Singh of their private hospital, stated that the individual is currently a 1-year-old boy that had been attracted to the paediatric Out Patient Department (OPD) of some Ludhiana-based NGO.
He added he needed a birth defect in which an added prosthetic leg was originating from the trunk as well as both ordinary legs and the leg had been neurologically intact even though the energy at that leg has been decreased.
“This’Tripod Deformity’ is apparently because of a parasitic Siamese twin, the system of that degenerated departing the leg supporting in another twin, which garnished with the rear of the child.
The patient had experienced an MRI scan that revealed the existence of Femur tibia fibula and the knee joint at the extra leg,” explained the nurse.
He added after attaining this identification, a decision 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 4 branches working together.
They included that the Neurosurgery group was led by Dr R.K.
Kaushal, the Orthopaedic group by Dr Mohd.
Yamin, Paediatric Surgery from Dr R.J.
Singh and Plastic Surgery by Dr.
Ravinder Tah.
“The operation lasted for more than 6 hours where the rudimentary leg has been discharged from the nervous plexus, amputated then the skin flaw has been closed,” said the hospital police.
Dr R K Kaushal, Head of this division (HOD), Neurosurgery in the Hospital stated”There has been a spinal cable connection with this next leg having a related meningomyelocele.
The MMC was mended and the neural connections to the attachment leg were dispersed carefully rescuing the guts Fibres of their regular lower extremities.
The individual is now at the paediatric Intensive Care Unit and is currently recovering according to expectation.
This was among the rarest and hardest cases I’ve observed in my profession.”