GRAFTING AN ELBOW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 May 1912, Page 3

GRAFTING AN ELBOW.

DARING FRENCH EXPERIMENTS

Dr Tuffier, a leading surgeon of Paris, says the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, reports two cases of successful grafting of bone on a human elbow ki a communication to the Academy of Medicine. The two operations were performed more than a year ago, and as the subjects ai'e in perfect health there can no longer be any doubt of the success of the experiment. Dr Tuffier says that he was called upon to treat the arm of a young man of 23. The elbow joint was affected by ankylqsis, and had to be removed, as the entire arm was paralysed. The bone of another patient, a woman whose foot had to be amputated, was used to replace the missing bone. Dr Tuffier presented radiographic, views showing .that the arm and joint were now perfectly healed, and the young man after 13 months, is able to use his arm. The second case was that of a young man of 21, whose elbow had been destroyed by tuberculosis. In this case Dr Tuffier grafted cartilage which had been preserved for five days from an operation performed on the" leg of anothear person. This operation was carried out 14 months ago, and was a perfect success.