Prime Hospitals in the city has performed a total Humerus (arm bone) replacement on a 25-year-old female patient, a rarely done procedure for cancers of the arm bone. Swapna, hailing from Dindi Mandal of Nalgonda District, was suffering from bone tumour of the arm bone caused by ‘Ewings Sarcoma’ of the humerus, Hospital Chief Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr G Satish Reddy, said at a press conference here this evening. Dr Reddy said the preservation of the affected limb was successful and the patient was recovering well. He said the surgery, performed for the first time in Andhra Pradesh a week ago, almost took five hours and cost Rs two lakh. Narrating the problem of the patient, Dr Reddy said Swapna presented herself with a complaint of pain and swelling of the right arm for the past few months. Investigations indicated a pathological fracture of the proximal humerus. Further scans showed highly malignant tumor, which had not spread to other parts of the body.
