Doctors of the Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital successfully corrected a deformity in a fire accident patient.
A team of orthopaedic surgeons led by Satish Nesari, associate professor, operated upon the patient using Ilizarov technique to cure the girl’s deformed feet and enabled her to use it after years of disuse.
The girl had suffered severe burns in childhood. It caused contracture of the right ankle with grotesque deformity, making her unable to walk. The fire had completely twisted the ankle and it had remained an unused appendage.
