title: Complications following operative treatment of primary malignant bone tumours in the pelvis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the complication rates of limb-salvage reconstruction in the pelvis. Detailed analyses about the type, treatment and outcome of post-operative complications, various reconstruction options are presented.
  
  
  METHODS
  Factors that might influence the occurrence of complications were evaluated of 50 consecutive surgically treated patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean follow-up was 57 months. Limb-salvage procedures were used in 42/50 patients, amputations in 8/50 patients. After limb-salvage procedures complications occurred in 32/42 patients, after hemipelvectomy in 6/8 patients. The 1 and 5-year overall survival rate was 92 and 68%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a high complication rate in reconstructive techniques using hemipelvic autografts and/or allografts. These procedures are appropriate only in well selected patients. The complication rates following endoprosthetic reconstruction are comparably low.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic University Hospital of Heidelberg, Schlierbacher Landstr. 200a, 69118 Heidelberg, Germany. felix.zeifang@ok.uni-heidelberg.de
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zeifang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buchner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zahlten-Hinguranage
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bernd
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sabo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D023821:Limb Salvage / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010384:Pelvic Bones / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011336:Probability; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D016019:Survival Analysis