Intercalary femur allografts are an acceptable alternative after tumor resection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the improved survival for patients with malignant bone tumors, there is a trend to reconstruct defects using biologic techniques. While the use of an intercalary allograft is an option, the procedures are technically demanding and it is unclear whether the complication rates and survival are similar to other approaches.

Questions/purposes

We evaluated survivorship, complications, and functional scores of patients after receiving intercalary femur segmental allografts.

Patients and methods

We retrospectively reviewed 83 patients who underwent an intercalary femur segmental allograft reconstruction. We determined allograft survival using the Kaplan-Meier method. We evaluated patient function with the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society scoring system. Minimum

SUBMITTER: Aponte-Tinao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3270162 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature