title: RECONSTRUCTION FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE TUMOR RESECTION OF THE PELVIC AND SCAPULAR GIRDLE: A REPORT OF TWO CASES.
abstract: Radical surgeries for treatment of scapular and pelvic girdle tumors (hemipelvectomy and interscapulothoracic amputation) are generally extended procedures, with large areas of local tissue loss after tumor resection. The use of a flap that includes all the anterior and posterior thigh musculature after femur dissection, pedicled in the superficial femoral vessels, has been described was only once in the medical literature, and there have been no reports on a similar flap using the whole anterior and posterior musculature of the arm after humerus dissection, pedicled in the subclavian vessels, for reconstruction after interscapulothoracic amputation. Here, we describe two cases - one hemipelvectomy and one interscapulothoracicl amputation - using these two the flaps to close the defect.
authors.affiliation: General Surgeons. Oncological Surgery Residents of the Hospital Erasto Gaertner - Uberaba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Juliana Corrêa
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dallagnol
authors.affiliation: General Surgeons. Oncological Surgery Residents of the Hospital Erasto Gaertner - Uberaba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rosyane Rena
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: de Freitas
authors.affiliation: General Surgeons. Oncological Surgery Residents of the Hospital Erasto Gaertner - Uberaba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: André Luiz Soares
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Crivellaro
authors.affiliation: Orthopedists of the Oncology Orthopedics Service Hospital Erasto Gaertner - Uberaba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Glauco José Pauka
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Mello
authors.affiliation: Orthopedists of the Oncology Orthopedics Service Hospital Erasto Gaertner - Uberaba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mário Armani
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Neto
authors.affiliation: Orthopedists of the Oncology Orthopedics Service Hospital Erasto Gaertner - Uberaba, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Geraldo de Freitas
authors.initials: Gde F
authors.lastname: Filho
keywords: Bone Neoplasms; Disarticulation; Hemipelvectomy; Pelvic Neoplasms; Scapula; Surgical Flaps