Word: femur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schmidt began the seven-hour operation by cutting a 2 1/2-foot long incision from the middle of his patient's thigh to more than halfway below her knee. He pulled back muscles and nerves, exposed the bones and the tumor; using a surgical saw, he then severed the femur four inches above the knee and the tibia, or shinbone, six inches below it. That done, he lifted out the old joint and tumor, trimmed the carefully chosen donor joint and inserted it into the twelve-inch gap. Using a metal rod and plate, the surgeon secured the new joint...
...uneveness in quality. Under the DRG system, hospitals of similar types in areas of similar economic structure are paid a "flat rate" for care of patients with specific diagnoses. Each patient is made to fit into one of 467 DRG categories (for example, DRG 235 is "Fracture of the Femur"), and the hospital will be paid only a certain fixed fee for the care of that patient if the federal government is picking up the bill...
...have intimidated forwards across the ECAC, suffered a severe knee injury in the first game of the Festival, when an opposing player fell on him in the corner. Four days later, back in Cambridge, Dr. Arthur Boland operated on his knee. Pawloski tore the knee ligaments out of his femur--but because the ligaments themselves were undamaged, the operation entailed re-attaching the ligaments to the bone...
...Radcliffe president suffered multiple fractures of the femur (upper leg bone) while getting out of car at Logan Airport...
...proof of its major application. Dr. James Nicholas, director of the Lenox Hill Institute of Sports Medicine in New York, calls the knee the body's most vulnerable joint, "the most complicated and the least suited to perform what it is asked to do." Ligaments joining the femur and tibia wrap around the knee to keep the bones together; the only cushion between these bones is two thin bands of cartilaginous tissue called menisci. Unlike the shoulder and hip joints, which are buried under layers of muscle, the knee is protected only by the kneecap and a thin layer...