Bone reconstruction after giant-cell tumor resection at the proximal end of the humerus with vascularized iliac crest graft. A report of three cases.
Giant-cell tumors at the proximal humerus were treated by wide excision and immediate bone replacement using free vascularized iliac crest grafts. The early results (30 months) in three patients have been satisfactory.
Leung
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Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T.
Hung
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D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D001864:Bone Wires; D005870:Giant Cell Tumors / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus / Q000601:surgery*; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation*; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D011542:Pseudarthrosis; D011859:Radiography; D012782:Shoulder / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic