bhubaneswar orthopaedic department of aiims bhubaneswar has performed a total femur replacement it is a first of its kind surgery in odisha claimed the national institute on thursdaya team of doctors led by sujit kumar tripathy additional professor department of orthopaedics aiims bhubaneswar has operated on a 30year young man from kendrapada district who had a huge tumour in the left thigh bonehe was suffering from a primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the thigh bone he had already undergone two surgeries previously in 2018 and 2019 that was inadequate to remove the tumor completely said the official sourceseven the young man had received chemotherapy prior to the current surgery the tumor was close to the blood vessels the team carefully excised the whole of the tumor in toto total femur megaprosthesis was implanted by tripathy and his team the difficult surgery took around four hours this was the first surgery of total femur replacement in odisha patient is doing well after the surgery said tripathy however the patient must receive further chemotherapy and the postoperative period needs vigilant managementaparajita panda and her team provided anaesthesia to the team