OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with limb salvage surgery in patients with limb osteosarcoma of Enneking stage II. PATIENTS AND METHODS Medical records of 98 patients who met the inclusion criteria were retrospectively analyzed. Of these patients, 56 cases who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with limb salvage surgery were listed as group A, whil...

background:   primary bone lymphoma or non-hodgkin lymphoma of bone is a rare disease. there are only a few case series of stage ie of this condition in medical literature. the aim of this study is to determine the rate of survival   for stage ie after combined modality treatment, the rate of local recurrence, and the results of limb salvage in cases   of local recurrence.     methods:   we col...

background: massive bone allograft is an option in cases of limb preservation and reconstruction after massive benign and malignant bone tumor resection. the purpose of this study was to analyze the outcome of these procedures at imam reza hospital, mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: in this study, 113 cases have been presented. eleven cases were excluded (patients has a traumatic...

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...

Limb-preserving surgery using modular megaprostheses for the reconstruction of large skeletal defects is currently the preferred treatment for sarcomas. The authors report the postoperative outcomes after skeletal resection for lower extremity sarcomas and the use of the METS cemented modular implant system (Stanmore Implants, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) for reconstruction. They retrospectiv...

BACKGROUND The presence of a pathological fracture due to osteosarcoma (OS) has been considered a high risk factor for dissemination and an indication for immediate amputation. With current neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens there is a trend towards limb salvage procedures in selected cases. The aim of this study is to assess the outcome of patients treated with amputation versus patients treate...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to conduct an audit of our policy of aggressive arterial reconstruction in patients with critical lower limb ischemia, so as to determine the success in treatment of these cases in terms of limb salvage and patient survival. METHODS This study was carried out at department of general and vascular Surgery, Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi from January 1...

UNLABELLED We reviewed the surgical treatment and outcomes of 13 patients with pelvic osteosarcoma treated in our centre in the past decade. The study sample included 9 males and 4 females with a mean age of 28.1 years. Four patients had ileal lesions, five had acetabulum lesions, one had a ischiopubis lesion, and three had involvement of the whole hemipelvis. Seven patients presented with dist...

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...