A NEW THIGH BONE
GIRLS BENEFITS FROM OPERATION. LONDON, Feb. 7. Ella Hunter, aged nine, of Stoke Newington, who was operated on at the Metropolitan Hospital for osteomyelitis, is now growing a new thigh bone, the surgeon having removed the infected boneshaft between the hip and the knee, leaving the preiosteum, which contains the bone cells, capable of eventual calcification, thereby forming a new bone. This began to grow a month after the operation. The child’s present progress warrants the expectation that she will eventually have the normal use of her leg.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 7
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92A NEW THIGH BONE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 7
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