DALLAS, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. surgeons say a review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down casts favorable light on the procedure. The rarely ...
The rarely performed surgery is called a hemicorporectomy or translumbar amputation, and involves removing the entire body below the waist, including legs, pelvic bone and urinary system. "It is used ...
Last-resort lower-body amputation effective in extreme cases of bone infection, 25-year review shows
A landmark, 25-year review of cases in which surgeons had to remove the lower portion of the body from the waist down for severe pelvic bone infections shows the therapy can add years and quality of ...
MECHANICVILLE -- Not long after she turned 40, Tammy Reed, a paraplegic, faced an existential choice. Chronic sores and infection would likely kill her within 18 months, or she could ask surgeons to ...
MECHANICVILLE — Tammy Reed, who underwent one of the most radically invasive surgeries in 2010, a hemicorporectomy, or hemi for short, has had the last of her wounds closed up and is taking online ...
“I was really afraid for my future,” Loren Schauers says in PEOPLE’s exclusive clip of TLC's new series ‘One Day in My Body’ ...
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