Rehabilitation after leg replantation R. Prascevichute in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Candidate of Medical Sciences, surgeon of City Clinical Hospital No. 51 Ramaz Otarovich Datiashvili, nine-year-old Rasa Prascevichute from the Vadaktai collective farm in the Vilkaviskis district of the Lithuanian SSR, on whom he performed a foot replantation operation on June 18, 1983, and who sheltered her while she was preparing for an operation to lengthen her right leg, a pensioner, a cloakroom attendant at City Clinical Hospital No. 51 Ekaterina Dmitrievna Volcheva. Due to the surgical scar, as Rasa grew older, her right leg became four centimeters shorter than her left, and R. O. Datiashvili was preparing to operate on her at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics. Valery Khristoforov/TASS