Bone tumor, prosthesis to hip ago take the first steps a baby girl 17 months

2:01 PM - a hip replacement has been implanted in the Rizzoli Hospital in Bologna at a girl of 17 months. "It is the first case in the history of orthopaedics international intervention of this type on a patient who is not yet able to walk", is to know the structure. The small had a rare form of cancer to the bones. Now the girl, who has 2 and a half years, walks.

The goal is and arrived thanks to a meticulous job that has been done by medical teams and one of the laboratories of the Rizzoli, with the support of the Bank of the bone, that have had to design and model the prosthesis on the basis of the compliance of the patient, since on the market are not prosthesis so small.