Rotationplasty as a limb salvage procedure for malignant bone tumours.
Sixteen patients with malignant bone tumours, 15 osteosarcoma and one Ewing's sarcoma, were treated by rotationplasty at Tata Memorial Hospital between 1989 and 1994. The functional results are better than after amputation.
Badhwar
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Department of Surgery, Bone and Soft Tissue Service, Tata Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Parel, Bombay, India.
Agarwal
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007867:Leg Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012399:Rotation; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome