Joint-preserving tumor resection and reconstruction using image-guided computer navigation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Joint-preserving surgery is performed in select patients with bone sarcomas of extremities and allows patients to retain the native joint with better joint function. However, recurrences may relate to achieving adequate margins and there is frequently little room for error in tumors close to the joint surface. Further, the tumor margin on preoperative CT and/or MR images is difficult to transpose to the actual extent of tumor in the bone in the operating room.

Questions/purposes

We therefore determined whether joint-preserving tumor surgery could be performed accurately under image-guided computer navigation and determined local recurrences, function, and complications.

Methods

We retrospectively studied eight patients with bone sarcoma of extremities treat

SUBMITTER: Wong KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3563823 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature