Unique Implant Helps Lengthen Man's Legs
Dr. Robert Bruce, orthopedic surgeon at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and ACTSI investigator, offers patients a different kind of procedure that lengthens limbs through a metal rod that is implanted into the patient's leg bone. The device, called an Intramedullary Skeletal Kinetic Distractor, was FDA-approved in 2001. Read more...