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    Innovative spinal surgery at University Children's Clinical Hospital

    11.01.2019 07:28
    Author: Administrator UMB

     

    On 7 and 8 January 2019, at the invitation of the Children's Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic, professor Ilkka Juhani Helenius visited the University Children's Clinical Hospital. Prof. Helenius is the head of the Department of Spine Surgery at the Pediatric Orthopedic Clinic, Turku University Hospital, Finland.

    During the visit, the orthopedic team of the Children's Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic of MUB under the supervision of the visiting professor performed two complicated correction operations of bone-related scoliosis in the course of rare congenital defects of the spine in 7 and 8 year old children. Such operations are sporadically performed, and professor Ilkka Helenius is one of the best specialists in spine surgery in Europe, performing the biggest number of such treatments on our continent. Those were the first such treatments in our region, which are also extremely rare in Poland.

    The Medical University of Bialystok has been cooperating with the University of Turku for many years. The visit of prof. Helenius is the beginning of clinical and scientific cooperation of the Orthopedic and Traumatology Clinic of UCCH with the sororal unit of the University of Turku in Finland.

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