When Rodney Sneath, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, was faced in 1970 with a patient refusing what was then the only surgical option of amputation for a bone tumour, he embarked on his first custom made endoprosthetic replacementfor the upper part of the femur. He soon began to attract other patients with tumours, and his innovative skills allowed him to develop operations to replace and reconstruct parts of the femur, tibia, humerus, radius, and pelvis. Rodney took immense
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