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Article: DR. RONALD MALT; PERFORMED FIRST REATTACHMENT OF LIMB
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2002
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Dr. Ronald A. Malt, who gained international fame as the lead
surgeon of a Massachusetts General Hospital team that performed the
world's first successful replantation of a human limb in 1962, died
Saturday of Alzheimer's disease at the Newton-Wellesley Alzheimer's
Center in Wellesley. He was 70.
Dr. Malt was the chief surgical resident when he and the MGH team
reattached the arm of 12-year-old Everett (Red) Knowles, a red-
headed Little League baseball player from Somerville whose right arm
was severed just below the shoulder. Knowles had hopped on a freight
train and was hanging on the side when it passed close to a stone
abutment.
"We never considered replantation before," Dr. Malt said ...