Thirteen-year-old Amanda suffers from a rare form of dwarfism in which the skeletal bones don’t form correctly. Concerned about pressure on her spinal cord and the risk of paralysis, Dartmouth-Hitchcock surgeons team-up for a spinal fusion procedure in the new Center for Surgical Innovation (CSI), a state-of-the-art, real-time, multimodal imaging facility designed to solve difficult surgical problems.
Find out the challenges doctors faced with her unique anatomy and the surprise that awaited them in surgery. This is the second of a three-part look at Amanda’s story. More about Amanda's story - [ Ссылка ]
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a national leader in patient-centered health care and building a sustainable health system. Founded in 1893, the system includes New Hampshire's only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 40 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state's only Children's Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children's hospital. As an academic medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
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