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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-11-21
pubmed:abstractText
Seventy patients who had a rotationplasty for treatment of a malignant tumor in the region of the knee (the femur or the tibia) between 1974 and 1987 were followed for two to thirteen years (mean duration of follow-up, four years). Forty-seven patients had a stage-IIB osteosarcoma; the remaining twenty-three patients had a malignant fibrous histiocytoma, a chondrosarcoma, a Ewing sarcoma, or a giant-cell tumor. The most severe postoperative complication was occlusion of the reanastomosed vessels (seven patients), leading to amputation proximal to the knee in three patients. Other complications were problems with wound-healing (eight patients), transient nerve palsy (five patients), irreversible nerve palsy (two patients), pseudarthrosis (four patients), and rotational malalignment (one patient). Late complications included eight fractures, two infections, two delayed unions, and one lymphatic fistula. More than half of the patients were free of complications related to the operative procedure. Forty-four of the patients who had a stage-IIB osteosarcoma could be followed, and their data were analyzed for survival statistics. These patients had a 58 percent rate of disease-free survival and a 70 per cent rate of over-all survival. One patient had a local recurrence five years after the operation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9355
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
73
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1365-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Rotationplasty for limb salvage in the treatment of malignant tumors at the knee. A follow-up study of seventy patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Orthopaedic University Clinic, Vienna, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports