Word: fibulae
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...today Labollita is lifting 50-lb. dumbbells with his recovered arm, and Allison, now 8, is running and jumping on two healthy legs. The treatment that made their recoveries possible is a delicate, experimental form of surgery called the free vascularized fibular graft. This procedure uses segments of the fibula, the secondary bone in the lower leg, to replace large sections of bone elsewhere in the body that are missing or damaged as a result of accidents or such diseases as osteomyelitis. It also opens up the possibility of saving the limbs of some of the 1,900 Americans...
There is nothing new about using the fibula as a spare part. Important to four-legged animals, the bone is not essential to man, though the lower 30% helps to anchor the anklebone. As a result, surgeons have long used pieces of the fibula to patch damaged bones. "It is the outstanding transplant bone," says Dr. Harold Dick, chief of orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. But traditionally, a simple bone graft taken from the fibula or from any of several bones in cadavers can be used to repair only a small area. In cases...
...early February Jeff Ulin, a Currier House junior, played a 10:30 p.m. Sunday House hockey game against Kirkland. He came out of it with a double spiral fracture and shattering of the tibia as well as a fracture of the fibula of the right leg, courtesy of a late-game check at an exceedingly awkward angle...
...Rams had won five and lost six and appeared on their way to missing the playoffs for the first time in seven years. But some of the walking wounded returned or, as was the case with Linebacker Jack Youngblood, who appeared in two playoff games with a broken left fibula, simply kept on walking. (Youngblood: "I've gotten over the worst of it, which is the idea of playing with a broken leg.") The Rams beat their hated rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, 21-19, in one playoff game, then outdueled -some would say outdulled-Tampa Bay for the National...
McInally injured his left fibula bone while catching a 28-yard pass from may have injured ligaments in his left ankle, which his doctors say may be more damaging...