Qualitative surgical work in Al-Amal Hospital for Orthopedic Surgery.. Lengthening the leg of a 15-year-old boy who was involved in a traffic accident that caused him a traumatic injury that led to bone loss of more than a third of the leg bone, with a length of 7 cm, with a shortening of the leg of 3 cm.

After examining the case of the young man, it was decided to perform surgery, lengthen the bone, and compensate for shortness by using the Ilizarov device (an external annular fixation device used in orthopedic surgery to lengthen or reshape the bones of the extremities) under the supervision of Doctor Tariq Al-Mustafa, a specialist in orthopedic surgery. It was a successful operations, where the leg was lengthened, the shortage and the bone loss compensated by 10 cm during a year of treatment.