Word: tibias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here, if we can," said Dr. Frankel, drawing imaginary lines across the top and the bottom of Reza's right shin. Two cuts would divide the shin into three pieces, allowing it to be stretched at two points. "Or a single cut here if calculations prove his tibia too short for two cuts," said Dr. Lehman, touching the middle of the shin. The doctors did not know yet whether the bone-stretching frame could hold in line Reza's shin in three pieces his brother Amir, 12, barely suppressed a wince whenever the doctors said the word cut. But Reza...
...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 to the remainder of the femur and tibia...
...Huskies, 28-7, in 1970...Northeastern first tested its Wishbone in 1985 in a preseason match with the Crimson...Tight end Don Gajewski may return to action today after suffering a dislocated shoulder. Halfback Rufus Jones will remain on the sidelines with a stress fracture of the left tibia...
...Crimson's other injured player, Rufus Jones, probably will not return until mid-October. After working his way back from a serious knee injury, Jones suffered a stress fracture of the right tibia (shin bone) in the preseason...
Suzanne Sommers of Clinton, N.J., was diapering her eight-month-old daughter Allison in 1977 when she heard a distinct pop in the child's leg. Ordinarily an infant's bones are so pliable that considerable force is required to break them, but in Allison's case, the tibia, the major bone of the lower leg, had snapped like a pretzel. When doctors examined the child, they found that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition...