The amputation happened when the individual was perhaps 12 years old, the skeleton indicates. Gone is the lower portion of the left leg. And somehow, the individual survived the surgical procedure — a ...

Limb-sparing surgery, which has been taking the place of amputation for bone and soft tissue sarcomas of the lower limb in recent years, may not provide much or even any additional benefit to patients ...

Deep in a Bornean cave, archaeologists found the skeleton of a young person who survived a leg amputation 31,000 years ago, ...

The AMI was first implemented surgically in a human patient at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston, by Matthew J Carty, MD, one of the paper's authors, a surgeon in the Division of Plastic ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest case of surgical amputation to date in Borneo. The find presents a remarkable feat in human prehistory. The discovery describes the skeletal remains of a young ...

In Borneo, researchers have discovered the oldest case of a surgical amputation, in which a person's left lower leg and left foot were purposefully removed. The scientists estimated that the surgery ...

When patients experience hardening of the arteries and develop critical limb ischemia, it’s common for them to ask their physician if saving their limb from amputation is possible. Thanks to new ...

Diagnosed with fibular hemimelia%2C Jackson Lange is scheduled to have his foot amputated Wednesday. The 8-month-old from Bridgewater will have his surgery at Boston Children%27s Hospital. A rare bone ...

Sept. 7 (UPI) --Researchers on Wednesday announced that they have found what appears to be the earliest known evidence of a surgical amputation, from a 31,000-year-old skeleton that was unearthed in ...

A disabled darts player has been unsuccessful in a compensation claim exceeding £1 million, after a judge determined he ...