title: Limb sparing surgery for bone tumours of the shoulder girdle: the oncological and functional results.
abstract: It is a great challenge to spare the upper limb with a malignant or invasive benign bone tumour of the shoulder girdle. We retrospectively analysed 35 patients with bone tumours of the shoulder girdle treated with various limb salvage procedures. The tumours included 25 primary malignancies, three metastases and seven giant cell tumours which involved the proximal humerus in 21 patients, scapula in 12 and clavicle in two. The reconstruction procedures included eight prosthetic replacements, four devitalised tumorous bone grafts, three osteoarticular allografts, two autogenous fibular grafts, one intramedullary cemented nail, three Tikhoff-Linberg procedures, two replantation of shortened arms, and four humeral head suspensions. Six partial scapulectomies and two lateral clavicectomies needed no bone reconstruction. With an average follow-up of 71 months, local recurrences occurred in four cases and systemic metastases in six. Nine patients died and 23 remained disease free. The five year Kaplan-Meier survival rate of 28 patients with malignancies was 69.5%. The average Musculoskeletal Tumour Society (MSTS) functional score was 77% (range 40-100%) in all patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jianmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhiping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhenfeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019643:Arthroplasty, Replacement / Q000379:methods; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D023821:Limb Salvage / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012782:Shoulder / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult
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