Orthopedic surgery pioneered in the early 1950s by Dr. Masaki Watanabe of Japan to perform minimally invasive cartilage surgery and reconstructions of torn ligaments. Arthroscopy allows patients to recover from the surgery in a matter of days, rather than the weeks to months required by conventional, 'open' surgery. It is a very popular technique. Knee arthroscopy is one of the most common operations performed by orthopedic surgeons today and is often combined with meniscectomy or chondroplasty. The majority of upper extremity outpatient orthopedic procedures are now performed arthroscopically. Arthroplasty is an orthopedic surgery where the articular surface of a musculoskeletal joint is
Body Parts (film) Body Parts (film) Body Parts is a 1991 horror thriller film that was directed by Eric Red, produced by Frank Mancuso Jr., jointly scripted by Red and Norman Snider, who dramatized a story that Patricia Herskovic and Joyce Taylor had based on the horror novel "Choice Cuts," which itself was written jointly by the partnership of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif and Zakes Mokae. Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a psychologist working with convicted killers at a prison. While driving to work, Bill gets in a