title: Surgery for locally aggressive bone tumours.
abstract: Treatment of 16 patients with aggressive benign bone tumours and one patient with a low grade malignancy with a combined regimen of cryosurgery, phenolization and acrylic cementation is reported. Patients were aged between 9 and 51 years and were treated by this method between the years 1986 and 1993. Minimal follow up was 13 months. The commonest histological diagnosis was giant cell tumour (7), followed by aneurysmal bone cyst (6), chondromyxoidfibroma (3) and low grade chondrosarcoma (1). Patients were assessed for functional outcome and local recurrence. On average 86 per cent of premorbid function was restored at follow up and there was one local recurrence (6.29 per cent). We conclude that this is a satisfactory method of gaining local control of these tumours.
authors.affiliation: Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Devitt
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: O'Sullivan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kavanagh
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Hurson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001843:Bone Cements; D017824:Bone Cysts, Aneurysmal / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002648:Child; D002804:Chondroblastoma / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003452:Cryosurgery; D003475:Curettage; D005260:Female; D018212:Giant Cell Tumor of Bone / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements