Pelvic limb-salvage surgery for malignant tumors.
Thirteen patients with primary malignant tumors of the pelvis underwent internal hemipelvectomy. The diagnoses were: Ewing's sarcoma 7, osteosarcoma 4, chondrosarcoma 1, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma 1. No megaprostheses or massive allografts were used for reconstruction. Six patients underwent resection only with no reconstruction, 5 had strut grafts inserted to restore the pelvic ring, 1 had an autoclaved autograft of the acetabulum and 1 had an ilio-femoral arthrodesis. No patients were lost to follow-up. Nine patients died from their disease after an average of 23 months (range 2 to 72 months). The 4 survivors (3 free of disease) have an average follow-up of 84 months (range 60 to 120 months).
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Department of Orthopedic Surgery--MBC 77, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Rajpant@hotmail.com
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006428:Hemipelvectomy; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium; D008297:Male; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000601:surgery; D010384:Pelvic Bones; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012512:Sarcoma, Ewing / Q000601:surgery*