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Brave seven-year-old British girl has leg reattached backwards after cancer surgery

April 27, 2018

A seven-year-old British girl has had her left leg amputated and then reattached backwards after being diagnosed with bone cancer.

Amelia Eldred, was diagnosed last year and undertook a rare procedure called rotationplasty in hope that she may dance and play sports again in the future.

Doctors at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, in Birmingham, reattached the lower part of the leg backwards to allow the ankle joint to work as a knee joint, the BBC reported.

The procedure means that she will be able to have a prosthetic limb fitted one day. 

"When I look in the mirror it looks strange, and then when I look at it face to face it looks normal," Amelia told Reuters. 

She remains positive about the future, kissing her reattached left leg saying, "Look, we're best buddies."

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