title: Giant solitary osteochondroma of the proximal humerus treated by resection and fibular autograft reconstruction.
abstract: A giant solitary osteochondroma of the proximal humerus in a 9-year-old boy was widely resected. Reconstruction of the bone defect was achieved with two nonvascularized fibula segments which gave sufficient stability to the proximal humerus and yielded rapid bone remodeling into an almost normal cortical bone after six months.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Oncology and Experimental Surgery, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gebhart
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vadoud Seyedi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lejeune
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005360:Fibula / Q000637:transplantation; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus; D008297:Male; D015831:Osteochondroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous