Dr. Philip K. McClure
Director, International Center for Limb Lengthening
MD
Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics — Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Background
McClure is Director of the International Center for Limb Lengthening at the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, treating pediatric and adult patients needing limb lengthening and reconstruction. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh, completed an orthopaedic surgery residency and orthopaedic trauma fellowship at Brown University, a pediatric orthopedics and scoliosis fellowship at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, and a limb lengthening and reconstructive surgery fellowship at the Rubin Institute's International Center for Limb Lengthening, which he joined as assistant director in 2019. He is board certified and belongs to the Orthopedic Trauma Association, POSNA, the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society, and AAOS.
Peer-reviewed research
- Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Intramedullary Lengthening Nails vs. Alternative Techniques for Femoral Limb Lengthening: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis — JBJS Reviews, 2024
- Latest Advances in Limb Lengthening Using Magnetically Controlled Intramedullary Lengthening Nails — Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 2020
Methods practised
Procedures performed
- ●Limb lengthening and reconstruction (pediatric and adult)
- ●PRECICE intramedullary lengthening nail system
- ●Deformity correction
- ●Reconstruction for trauma, infection, congenital conditions and genetic syndromes
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