A Colorado boy is now recovering from his seventh surgery. Over eight years ago, his father tried to kill both of them by crashing a car in Centennial.

Acute lengthening can be done in the mid-diaphysis of the femur or through an innominate osteotomy. The latter may be indicated for a patient with primary pelvic asymmetry. Large leg length ...

A leg length inequality of 15 to 20 cm -- may require a staged lengthening, lengthening combined with epiphysiodesis, or amputation. Numerous complications of limb lengthening procedures occur ...

He cut Mattern’s iliotibial band to prevent the tough tissue, which runs the length of the femur, from impeding the leg lengthening process. The snap of the tissue being cut sounded like the ...

In her story about patients getting leg-lengthening surgery I felt like I ... “He was creating a line of perforations ...