title: Limb salvage surgery in primary bone tumors. The Saint Savvas experience in 52 patients.
abstract: Between 1983 and 1996, 52 patients with primary bone neoplasms underwent limb salvage surgery using endoprostheses in 36 cases, internal hemipelvectomy in 6 cases, Tihoff-Lindberg arthroplasty in 9, and knee arthrodeses in 2 patients. 22 of 36 patients with an endoprostheses could walk without instability or pain. However, major complications occurred as local recurrence in 9 patients and deep infection in 5 patients which led to amputation in 2 patients. Good function was achieved in all patients that underwent hemipelvectomy, but the local recurrence rate was high. Good function was also achieved in patients who underwent a Tihoff-Lindberg procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Saint Savvas Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Voutzoulias
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Demetzis
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kyriazoglou
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lekkas
mesh_terms: D001174:Arthrodesis; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D019736:Prostheses and Implants