LON on femur

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Hi everyone,  I have a question regarding limb lengthening method. What do you think about lengthenig with Holyfix method (monorail)  and then nailing (LON) on femur. Is that so difficult as it is written on forum by some people? Some doctors say  that LON on femur is easier than LON on tibia

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Anyone?

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Quote from: Tiger9898 on February 05, 2018, 09:29:20 AMHi everyone,  I have a question regarding limb lengthening method. What do you think about lengthenig with Holyfix method (monorail)  and then nailing (LON) on femur. Is that so difficult as it is written on forum by some people? Some doctors say  that LON on femur is easier than LON on tibia

Which doctors say that?

And everyone here thinks externals on femurs are hell.

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Quote from: myloginacct on February 05, 2018, 04:03:25 PMWhich doctors say that?

And everyone here thinks externals on femurs are hell.

Here is the answer of Dr Mehmet Kocaoğlu written in this forum. I think his answer is based on monorail system and then nailing
+In your experience, compared to tibial lengthening with the ilizarov frames, how much more difficult of a procedure will be femoral lengthening with LON
for the patient?
-Femoral lengthening with LON technique is much easier than in tibiaes (legs).

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Quote from: Tiger9898 on February 05, 2018, 04:34:21 PMHere is the answer of Dr Mehmet Kocaoğlu written in this forum. I think his answer is based on monorail system and then nailing
+In your experience, compared to tibial lengthening with the ilizarov frames, how much more difficult of a procedure will be femoral lengthening with LON
for the patient?
-Femoral lengthening with LON technique is much easier than in tibiaes (legs).

That's a pretty short answer. He might have meant a multitude of things. The daily experience for the patient could be worse, even if he thinks it's easier on femurs due to surgical reasons. I'd recommend e-mailing doctors about that subject before making any decision.

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Doctor in my mind is Dr Serkan Gurcan, he is only doing surgery with LON method with Holyfix method for cosmetic purposes. He also said me that walking, mobility are easier in tibia compared to femur. But I said I want to lengthen my femur, then he said no problem we can lengthen your femur
Below you can see one of his patients after 12 hours tibia lengthening,  P.S not all  patients are like that. Everyone ' situation can be different you know

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Think about it friend.. metal frame around your thighs for one year.

I know the people here are crazy, but you'd have to be stupid to do external femurs.

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Please read carefully my post, It is Lon method, instead of 9 month it will be about 3 month and it is monorail device not ilizarov. It will not be around my femur.

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Anything else than fully internals is comoletely stupid and barbaric for femurs.
Monorails is the worst nethod of lengthening and having external frames on femurs (even monorails) means that you'll suffer from pins cuting through your muscles. Cemurs are not like tibias, there are muscles everywhere and if someone thinks that having screws cuting through them is something easy then he'll learn from the hard way.

I've said it before, no respectable doctor does externals on cemurs, if some people here think that they are very clever to lengthen femurs with minimum cost with these crap devices (holyfix! what a name) then so be it. But if they end up cripples then the responsibility is all up to them.