New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- A 16-year-old girl whose thigh bone was destroyed by chronic infection in 2021 is now five years past surgery, and the bone rebuilt with her mother's own fibula is still growing well. Her case led surgeons at Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital to use maternal fibula grafts in children's legs, which the team says had not been tried before.

The surgical team was led by Dr. Aashish Chaudhry, Director & Head, Orthopaedics & Robotic Joint Replacement, Dr. Arun Kumar Giri, Director of Surgical Oncology, and Dr. Abhishek Kumar Sambharia, Consultant Orthopaedics, Aakash Healthcare.

When the first child came to the hospital, the team searched the medical literature and found that maternal fibula grafts had been use...