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...Susan Lazarchick, the decision to undergo an experimental knee transplant was frighteningly simple. A benign tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young...
...Sept. 30, 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...
...Naval Hospital two weeks ago, her plight, like that of Betty Ford 13 years ago, focused national attention on breast cancer. The affliction is the No. 3 killer of American women, after heart disease and lung cancer. The First Lady's case underscored the importance of early detection: her tumor was discovered during an annual mammogram, which is recommended for older women. But her choice of treatment caused some consternation and puzzlement in the medical community...
...Reagan's decision to have a modified radical mastectomy -- the removal of the entire breast and underarm lymph nodes -- struck some doctors as extreme. The reason: her tumor was just a quarter-inch in diameter -- small enough to have been safely excised by a less disfiguring operation called a lumpectomy, in which the tumor is removed along with a minimum of surrounding tissue. The First Lady also chose to have the surgery immediately after her breast was biopsied. According to prevailing medical wisdom, it is better to wait a few days so that the biopsied tissue can be thoroughly examined...
Doctors removed the first lady's left breast and several lymph nodes from under her arm on Saturday in a 50-minute operation following a needle biopsy that revealed a quarter-inch malignant tumor. The first indication of the lesion came Oct. 5 during Mrs. Reagan's annual mammography...