MartinI.Boyer, MD, FRCS(C)
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
- One of the only surgeons worldwide to perform a pediatric vascular bone transfer, a procedure in which bone and blood vessels are surgically removed from one site and transferred to another site in the body where they will grow and function normally.
- Pediatric orthopedic surgeon at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and associate professor of orthopaedic surgery Washington University School of Medicine
- Specializes in hand, wrist and upper extremity surgery in addition to post-tumor reconstruction surgery.
Notable Quotes from Dr. Boyer
Dr. Boyer on the benefit of vascular bone transfer:
“In the case of bone cancer of the upper arm, we can now take bone and blood vessels from one of the two bones in the patient’s lower leg and reshape the transplanted bone to fit its new location in the arm, where it will grow and function normally.”