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Limb Lengthening Surgery => Limb Lengthening Discussions => Topic started by: Elgato97 on July 22, 2021, 11:47:18 PM

Title: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Elgato97 on July 22, 2021, 11:47:18 PM

I want to do LON with a doctor who have done only 3, but successful surgeries yet. On the other side, he has done many classic external surgeries from 5 to even 10 cm in one segment. The reason why I want to choose him is because of the cheapness of the surgery with him and because he is living in my home  country. My goal would be to do 8 cm in femur. Do you think If the doctor is proficient in Ilizarov method he can be trusted to do the LON method?

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Thehighest on July 23, 2021, 01:15:09 AM

Is he a trauma surgeon or only cosmetic? I mean if he has experience with accidents, fractures and those things inserted an internal nail is not a big problem becuase they are used to do it frequently for hemmilemas in the tibia for example.

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Medium Drink Of Water on July 23, 2021, 01:31:23 AM

Has he done intermedullary nails without Ilizarovs?  If he has experience doing those, it's not a stretch of his abilities to do LON.

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Elgato97 on July 23, 2021, 11:26:20 AM

He is orthopedic surgeon (mostly cosmetic, because most of his pa :Dtients came to fix leg deformities) and has done only 3 LON surgeries. He has never done only intetnal surgeries. Unfortunately I only know that these 3 surgeries were successful, but don't know about any complications during surgeries. And also almost all of his surgeries were done in tibia

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Medium Drink Of Water on July 23, 2021, 03:24:26 PM

If he's licensed and has a good reputation, I'd go for it.

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Elgato97 on July 23, 2021, 05:41:00 PM

Thanks for the reply. Do you think full external tibia is very different than LON femur?

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Medium Drink Of Water on July 23, 2021, 06:18:36 PM

Oh, sorry.  I overlooked the part about femurs.  Whenever I see LON or external I usually assume tibias.

Yes, those are very different.  Don't get LON femur even from Paley.

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Elgato97 on July 23, 2021, 09:21:33 PM

Wow. I am hearing about it the first time. Could you please explain the reason for this? And as I understood doing full externals on femur is even more dangerous.

Title: Re: Can I trust a doctor to do LON If he is only experienced in Ilizarov method
Post by: Body Builder on July 23, 2021, 10:16:25 PM

Quote from: Elgato97 on July 23, 2021, 09:21:33 PM

Wow. I am hearing about it the first time. Could you please explain the reason for this? And as I understood doing full externals on femur is even more dangerous.

On femurs you should do only fully internals.
LON or fully externals are not an option and no respectable doctor do it.

For LON your only option are tibias, nothing else.