Musculoskeletal Tumors

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Mastering Femoral Metastases: Optimal Function for Femoris & Vastus

BACKGROUND The femur is the most common site for metastatic bone disease requiring surgery. Because it is a major weight-bearing bone with …

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Advanced Distal Femoral Resections: Limb-Sparing Outcomes & Techniques

BACKGROUND Ralph C. Marcove (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and Kenneth C. Francis (New York University Medical Center) introduced…

Guide Topics:

• Free Vascularized Fibular Grafts: Solving Complex Bone Defects
• Beyond Amputation: Total Femur Resection with Endoprosthetics
• Limb-Sparing Quadriceps Resection: Superficial Femoral Artery

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Sacral Tumor Surgery: Safeguarding Bowel & Bladder Control

BACKGROUND Tumors involving the sacrum mainly include primary and metastatic tumors. Metastatic tumors are more common than primary ones. T…

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Limb-Sparing Resections Around the Shoulder: Optimizing Outcomes

BACKGROUND The upper extremity is involved by bone and soft tissue neoplasms only one-third as often as the lower extremity. 3 The scapula …

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Mastering Hip Disarticulation: Through the Hip Joint Capsule

BACKGROUND Hip disarticulation is an amputation of the lower extremity through the hip joint capsule. Although most tumors of the lower ext…

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Posterior Flap Hemipelvectomy: Mastering Techniques for Optimal Outcomes

BACKGROUND Despite increasingly effective chemotherapy and advances in limb-sparing surgery around the pelvis and hip, hindquarter amputati…

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Understanding Benign Bone Tumors: Your Complete Preoperative Guide

BACKGROUND An understanding of the basic biology and pathology of bone and soft tissue tumors is essential for appropriate planning of thei…

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Mastering Above-Knee Amputation: Essential Surgical Insights

BACKGROUND Although many bone and soft tissue sarcomas of the femur and thigh can be treated with limb-sparing techniques, some aggressive …

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Mastering Proximal Humerus Resection: Limb-Sparing Techniques

BACKGROUND The proximal humerus is a common site for both primary osteosarcomas and chondrosarcomas and is the second most common site of m…

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Total En Bloc Spondylectomy: Complete Resection for Spinal Tumors

BACKGROUND Conventionally, curettage or piecemeal excision has been the usual approach to vertebral tumors. These approaches have clear dis…

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Restore Vital Function: Surgery for Type II Humeral Metastasis

BACKGROUND The humerus is a common site of metastatic bone disease requiring surgery. A metastasis at that site, and especially one involvi…

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Beyond Hemipelvectomy: Preservation of the Sciatic in Buttock Surgery

BACKGROUND The gluteus maximus (buttock) is a common site for highand low-grade soft tissue sarcomas. The gluteus maximus is a “quiet area”…

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