Limb reconstruction surgery in China: an evaluation of its role in the largest developing nation
Lei Huang, Liang He, Jie Wei, Manyi Wang
Keywords :
External fixation, Ilizarov, Limb reconstruction, China
Citation Information :
Huang L, He L, Wei J, Wang M. Limb reconstruction surgery in China: an evaluation of its role in the largest developing nation. 2007; 2 (2-3):99-104.
China is the “economic tiger” of the twenty-first century. Its new economic policies have overturned the outlook and futures of many industries in this nation, and parallel to this industrial progress have been strides in medicine. However a country steeped in a history of several millennia does not replace generations of experience nor knowledge in a few decades. The author explores the history of limb reconstruction surgery in this country, setting it in context of a population exposed to both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.
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