Indian surgeons use mothers’ bone grafts to save children from leg amputations

A Delhi hospital team has adapted maternal fibula grafting for children’s lower limbs, reporting five years of success in a girl whose thigh bone was rebuilt using her mother’s bone.Two children from Uzbekistan who had been advised to undergo above-knee amputation in their home country travelled to Delhi, where surgeons reconstructed their damaged thigh bones using bone grafts taken from their mothers.