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Use Of Fresh Parental Fibular Allograft For Reconstruction Of Skeletal Defects After Limb Salvage Surgery, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Raza Askari, Sher Baz
Use Of Fresh Parental Fibular Allograft For Reconstruction Of Skeletal Defects After Limb Salvage Surgery, Muhammad Masood Kadir, Raza Askari, Sher Baz
Department of Surgery
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To share early experience with paediatric patients having undergone skeletal reconstruction after limb salvage surgery.
METHODS:
A reterorespective audit study was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from 1994 to 2011 An audit of the institutional tumour registry was done and relevant cases of paediatric patients having undergone skeletal reconstruction after limbsalvage surgery were tracked. Outcomes were objectively assessed through Musculoskeletal Tumour Society score. International Society of Limb Salvage grading was used to measure union of the graft to the host bone.
RESULTS:
Of the total 9 patients, 5(55.6%) were males and 4(44.4%) were females with an …
Our Experience With Van Nes Rotationplasty For Locally Advanced Lower Extremity Tumours, Raza Askari, Masood Umer, Mohsin-E-Azam, Haroon Rashid
Our Experience With Van Nes Rotationplasty For Locally Advanced Lower Extremity Tumours, Raza Askari, Masood Umer, Mohsin-E-Azam, Haroon Rashid
Department of Surgery
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To present an early experience with the time-tested technique of Van Ness Rotationplasty to save distal lmbs.
METHODS:
Van Nes Rotationplasty for locally advanced lower extremity tumours. A reterorespective audit was conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised cases of bone and soft tissue sarcoma who underwent Van Ness Rotationplasty over seven years from January 2005 to December 2011. Demographic data, family history, past history, co-morbids, date since diagnosis, duration of symptoms, type of tumour, metastasis, pre-op and post-op functional status, recurrence and survival were collected.
RESULTS:
Of the 351 cases of bone and soft tissue …