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. 2000 Dec 19;24(6):311–315. doi: 10.1007/s002640000197

Pelvic limb-salvage surgery for malignant tumors

R Pant 1, P Moreau 1, I Ilyas 1, ON Paramasivan 1, D Younge 1
PMCID: PMC3619926  PMID: 11294419

Abstract.

Thirteen patients with primary malignant tumors of the pelvis underwent internal hemipelvectomy. The diagnoses were: Ewing's sarcoma 7, osteosarcoma 4, chondrosarcoma 1, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma 1. No megaprostheses or massive allografts were used for reconstruction. Six patients underwent resection only with no reconstruction, 5 had strut grafts inserted to restore the pelvic ring, 1 had an autoclaved autograft of the acetabulum and 1 had an ilio-femoral arthrodesis. No patients were lost to follow-up. Nine patients died from their disease after an average of 23 months (range 2 to 72 months). The 4 survivors (3 free of disease) have an average follow-up of 84 months (range 60 to120 months).

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