Functional salvage of a severely injured extremity is a challenge for the patient and the treating surgeon. We report a case of a woman presenting with severely injured lower limb and bone loss, which was managed using a custom-made endoprosthetic replacement for successful functional outcome. Despite being complicated by bone loss, nerve injury and infection; a planned staged surgical treatmen...

Buerger disease or thromboangiitis obliterans is a non-atherosclerotic, segmental, inflammatory, peripheral arterial occlusive in young male smokers. Revascularization via endovascular treatment and/or bypass surgery less common and technically challenging patients with disease. Herein, we report the case of 30-year-old patient who underwent followed by surgery, which successfully salvaged his c...

A 31-year-old male was diagnosed with osteoblastic osteosarcoma of the talus. Limb-salvage surgery for talar performed by replacing intact talus a 3D-printed prosthesis made from medical-grade titanium. The had 3 tunnels simulating ligaments around At last follow-up, functional and clinical outcomes were excellent. Our patient achieved 93% restoration Musculoskeletal Tumor Society score as well...

In this study, we analyzed long-term survival, limb function and associated complications after prosthetic limb salvage treatment in patients with bone and soft tissue tumors around the knee joint. A total of 63 patients treated with prosthetic limb salvage surgery around the knee were reviewed. The bone tumors involved the distal femur in 45 pati...

PURPOSE To assess functional and oncological outcomes of patients with malignant fibrous histiocytomas of bone, after limb salvage surgery complimented by a customised prosthesis. METHODS Between May 1991 and December 2002, 15 men and 5 women (mean age, 42 years) with histologically proven malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone underwent treatment involving limb salvage surgery complimented b...

  Background :Delayed :::union:::, non:::union:::, and mechanical failure is still problems encountered in limb salvage surgery (LSS) using extracorporeal irradiation (ECI). This study aimed to determine whether bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) improve host-graft :::union::: after osteotomy and also increase its mechanical str...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to compare the outcome of patients presenting with heel ulcers or gangrene (HEEL group) with those having lesions in other parts of the foot (non-HEEL group). METHODS Treatment and outcomes of all HEEL and non-HEEL patients between June 2001 and October 2006 were compared. RESULTS Three hundred eight patients were treated (71 HEEL and 237 non-HEEL)...

This is a retrospective study of 57 patients with extremity soft tissue sarcomas treated at Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Gujarat, India from January 2005 to December 2007. It aims to review the feasibility of limb sparing surgery for extremity soft tissue sarcoma in Indian population. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of tumors were located in the upper limbs and 72% in the lower extremities. Th...

The management of posttraumatic vascular injury that presents after 8 h, or "ultra-time vascular injury", is daunting, and inciting recognition of this injury is vital. We retrospectively analyzed 29 patients with ultra-time vascular injuries to determine the patients' demographic characteristics and identify the determinants for amputation and disability. The age distribution of the high-risk ...