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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 …