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Dr. Mitra performs surgery on webbed fingers 08-29-2011

 

Hand surgery patient | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PA

 

Click above to download a PDF of this article from the Northeast Times from 1996. Here are a few exerpts:

 

 

"When Paige Briggs was born, the fingers of her left hand were webbed together. Surgery is correcting the unusual condition."

 

"Paige was born with a condition called syndactyly. The fingers and thumb on her left hand were webbed together. The hand also has two index fingers that are fused together. Through surgery, however, most of Paige's fingers have been separated. In future... read more

Dr. Mitra reattaches a man's thumb 07-27-2011

 

Thumb reattachment newspaper article | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PA

 

"People tend to take many things for granted. Simple physical tasks are easy and automatic, as easy as the push of a button. But what happens when, in the flick of the wrist, in an instant, one loses a hand, or even a thumb? One Temple University Hospital patient knows, but his story has a happy ending..."

 

Download this article (PDF) from 1987 from the Advisor, a now-defunct Philadelphia  weekly newspaper.

Unique surgery saves heart 07-06-2011

 

Unique surgery saves heart news clipping | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PAClick to download this article (PDF) from the Reading Eagle that describes a heart transplant procedure in which Dr. Mitra assisted. "Mitra explained he removed one of the two abdominal muscles, 'flipped' it inside the chest wall and laid it around the heart. The new blood supply pumped the antibiotics into the cavity, and cleansed the entire area."

Lawncrest child overcomes obstacles caused by hand condition at birth 06-13-2011

 

"Like most other two-year-old girls, Paige Briggs of Lawncrest enjoys watching her favorite Disney movies Pocahontas and Beauty and the Beast. She also likes playing dress-up with her mom's make-up and jewelry. But Paige faces challenges other children don't face—she was born with a congenital hand problem, a birth defect that caused the fingers on her left hand to be webbed and fused together..."

 

Download this article (PDF) that originally appeared in the News Gleaner in Philadelphia in 1996.

Philadelphia hospital rebuilds child's thumb 06-01-2011

 

Boy with a reconstructed thumb | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PAClick to download this article (PDF) from the Centre Daily Times from 1998 that describes a case in which Dr. Mitra rebuilt a 10-year-old boy's thumb, using a reconstructive surgery process called distraction, which "grows" bone in crushed or severed fingers.

Cancer can't keep this teen down 05-27-2011

 

Cancer can't keep this teen down | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PA

 

Click the image to download another PDF with more info about Dr. Mitra's patient, Greg Ratti, a teen who was diagnosed with an extremely rare cancer, nasal synovial sarcoma. Dr. Mitra was in charge of rebuilding Greg's nose after the cancer was removed.

Nose reconstruction after cancer 05-22-2011

 

It's the challenge of a lifetime | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PA

 

Click the image to download a PDF of this article. Dr. Mitra performed multiple reconstructive surgeries on Greg Ratti after part of his nose had to be removed because of a rare cancer.

 

"'The challenge was not to just make the nose look reasonable but to maintain the capability of the nose,' the doctor explains.

 

Today, Greg is going through the refining stages of his reconstructive surgery.

 

'It's like sculpting,' Mitra says."

Humanitarian trip to Peru 05-18-2011

 

Trip that changed Voorhees doctor's life | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PA

 

Click the image to download and read an article from the Courier-Post about Dr. Mitra's trip to Peru with the Sisters of Mercy.

 

During the 10-day trip, Dr. Mitra "repaired 43 cleft lips and palates, removed an extra thumb from a child's hand, freed joints contracted by badly healed burns and loosened an improperly attached tongue, enabling a child to speak for the first time."

What Is Eyelid Surgery? 03-29-2011

Clarissa Celestino

 

Eyelid surgery | Amit Mitra | Plastic Surgeon | Philadelphia, PA

Eyelid surgery, also known as blepharoplasty, consists of the removal or repositioning of baggy or droopy skin or fat around the upper or lower eyelid. The procedure is primarily used as a cosmetic procedure to fix the sagging and puffing of skin around the eyes, which is often caused by aging. Although mostly used as a cosmetic procedure, there are cases where this type of procedure is not elective.


Patients who have a condition of droopy eyelids (ptosis), causing their vision to be obstructed... read more