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Original Article

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.

DOI: 10.1007/s11751-007-0020-x

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Published Online: 01-12-2019

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2007; The Author(s).


Abstract

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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