Image guided surgery: new technology for surgery of soft tissue and bone sarcomas.
OBJECTIVE
Providing the surgical oncologist with a new means of performing safe and radical sarcoma surgery with the help of image guidance technology.


METHODS
Two patients with pelvic sarcomas were operated upon with the help of an intra-operative navigation system. The technology of image guided surgery is described in one patient with a retroperitoneal sarcoma invading the bony pelvis and another patient with a chondrosarcoma of the iliac crest.


RESULTS
We show that this new procedure enables optimal radical surgical resection with minimal treatment related morbidity or loss of function.


CONCLUSIONS
Image guided surgery is a new technical tool in sarcoma surgery.
Reijnders
K
K
Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
Coppes
M H
MH
van Hulzen
A L J
AL
Gravendeel
J P
JP
van Ginkel
R J
RJ
Hoekstra
H J
HJ
D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D010384:Pelvic Bones; D011859:Radiography; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*