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Guideline for Limb‐Salvage Treatment of Osteosarcoma
Orthopaedic Surgery, 2020 Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor, occurring mainly in children and adolescents, and the limbs are the main affected sites.
Ming Xu +4 more
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BMC Cancer, 2020 Background Historically, amputation was the primary surgical treatment for osteosarcoma of the extremities; however, with advancements in surgical techniques and chemotherapies limb salvage has replaced amputation as the dominant treatment paradigm. This
Daniel R. Evans +6 more
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Advances in limb salvage treatment of osteosarcoma
Journal of Bone Oncology, 2018 Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant bone tumor; its standard treatment includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with surgery. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has significantly improved the 5-year survival and limb salvage rates in osteosarcoma ...
Yichun Yang +9 more
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A comparative study between limb-salvage and amputation for treating osteosarcoma
Journal of Bone Oncology, 2016 Purpose: Osteosarcoma is an aggressive malignant neoplasm, and conflicting findings have been reported on the survival and function recovery in osteosarcoma patients experiencing limb salvage or amputation.
Xiaojuan Li +12 more
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Outcomes of infrapopliteal angioplasty for limb salvage based on the updated TASC II classification
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 2017 Purpose:We aimed to evaluate limb salvage, defined as freedom from major amputation, and to identify predictors of major amputation in patients with infrapopliteal peripheral arterial disease (PAD) based on the updated 2015 TASC II anatomic ...
Hong Kuan Kok +5 more
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Primary amputation versus limb salvage in upper limb major trauma: a systematic review
European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology, 2021 Severe upper limb injuries can result in devastating consequences to functional and psychological well-being. Primary objectives of this review were to evaluate indications for amputation versus limb salvage in upper limb major trauma and whether any ...
S. Nayar, Harry Alcock, D. Edwards
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A Comparison of Four-Year Health Outcomes following Combat Amputation and Limb Salvage
PLoS ONE, 2017 Little research has described the long-term health outcomes of patients who had combat-related amputations or leg-threatening injuries. We conducted retrospective analysis of Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs health data for lower ...
Ted Melcer +5 more
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Adamantinoma: A review of the current literature
Journal of Bone Oncology, 2023 Adamantinoma is a rare primary low-grade malignant tumour of the appendicular skeleton most commonly found in the tibia. It has an indolent course, with local recurrences and lung metastases occurring over a protracted duration.
Sarah Louise Smyth +4 more
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Limb Salvage Versus Amputation: A Review of the Current Evidence
Cureus, 2020 In the trauma situation where the trauma team is faced with a severely injured limb, it requires judicious thinking and evaluating not only the injury in isolation but the patient as a whole when considering the management options.
M. Qureshi +3 more
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Fifty tumor necrosis factor-based isolated limb perfusions for limb salvage in patients older than 75 years with limb-threatening soft tissue sarcomas and other extremity tumors [PDF]
, 2003 BACKGROUND: Isolated limb perfusion (ILP) with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and melphalan is highly effective in treating limb-threatening soft tissue sarcoma (STS) and other bulky tumors.
Eggermont, A.M.M. (Alexander) +3 more
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