女孩截肢后把腿反着接以战胜骨癌

女孩截肢后把腿反着接以战胜骨癌

A young girl’s only hope of survival after getting bone cancer was to have her leg amputated — then reattached backward.

一名小女孩患骨癌后，存活的唯一希望就是截肢，然后重新接上。

In August 2017, just before her seventh birthday, Amelia Eldred’s leg became mysteriously swollen. Her leg remained swollen for two weeks before an X-ray revealed a cancerous tumor on her left femur, says her mother, Michelle Eldred, from Tamworth, Staffordshire.

2017年8月，就在她快到七岁生日的时候，艾米莉亚·埃尔德丽德的腿神秘地肿了起来。她的母亲米歇尔·埃尔德雷德来自斯塔福德郡的塔姆沃思，她说，她的腿在x光检查中发现左股骨有一个癌变肿瘤之前，一直肿了两个星期。

“I can’t put into words how I felt that day,” Michelle tells Caters News. “My world just stood still, to think my daughter was about to embark on such a terrible journey .?.?. was horrific.”

“我无法用语言表达我那天的感受，”米歇尔告诉凯特新闻。“我的世界停滞不前，想到我的女儿即将踏上如此可怕的旅程……是可怕的。”

At Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the UK, an MRI and biopsy confirmed Amelia had osteosarcoma, and she began chemotherapy in September. But by November the tumor hadn’t budged. Their only option was to undergo either a full leg amputation or a procedure called a rotationplasty.

在英国伯明翰儿童医院，核磁共振和活检证实阿米莉亚患有骨肉瘤，她于9月开始化疗。但到了11月，肿瘤还没有长出来。他们唯一的选择是进行全腿截肢或所谓的旋转成形术。

The unusual surgery involves severing the leg and removing the cancerous portion, then reattaching the lower leg backward, creating a new knee joint at the angle that bends forward instead of behind. Doctors say the drastic and rare procedure would make it easier for Amelia to use a prosthetic leg. In addition, rotationplasty would allow her bones to continue to grow, and would preserve the main nerves in her lower leg, according to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

这个不寻常的手术包括切断腿，切除癌变部分，然后将小腿向后重新接上，创造一个向前弯曲的新膝关节，而不是向后弯曲。医生们表示，这种激烈而罕见的手术将使阿米莉亚更容易使用假肢。此外，根据达纳-法伯癌症研究所(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)的说法，旋转成形术可以让她的骨头继续生长，并保护她小腿的主要神经。