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Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2013 The threat of lower limb loss is seen commonly in severe crush injury, cancer ablation, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease and neuropathy. The primary goal of limb salvage is to restore and maintain stability and ambulation.
Dinesh Kadam
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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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Rotationplasty for Limb Salvage in the Treatment of Malignant Tumors: A Report of Two Cases
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2003 Limb salvage is now more common than amputation after radical excision to treat malignant tumors. In a skeletally immature patient who has malignant tumors in a lower extremity, rotationplasty offers a more reliable and durable option than other limb ...
Hsien-Chung Wang +4 more
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Criteria and outcome of limb salvage surgery.
Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology, 2011 When sufficient margins of resection surrounding the tumor can be achieved, limb salvage surgery, as opposed to amputation, has become the standard of care in treating patients with bone and soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities. Currently, 90-95% of patients with primary malignant bone and soft-tissue tumors involving the extremities can be treated ...
A F, Mavrogenis +6 more
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Complications of limb salvage surgery of the extremities
, 1989 Complications of limb salvage surgery of the extremities.
D. J. MCDONALD +5 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 ObjectiveWith the development of osteosarcoma treatment, limb salvage surgery is gradually replacing amputation as the primary surgical option. Most pediatric osteosarcomas of the limbs undergo limb-salvage surgery.
Jinkui Wang +8 more
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Mechanically Powered Negative Pressure Wound Therapy as a Bolster for Skin Grafting
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2014 Summary: The use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) as a bolster for split-thickness skin grafts has been well documented in the literature. It facilitates the removal of transudate, which can result in the formation of seroma, and mitigates shear
Adam L. Isaac, DPM +2 more
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Bypass Surgery in Limb Salvage: Inflow Procedures [PDF]
Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2013 Proper management of lower-extremity inflow vessel disease is critical to the success of distal interventions. Aortobifemoral bypass is the most effective means of treating aortoiliac disease, but this invasive procedure is not always ideal for a patient population that often has diffuse vascular disease and multiple comorbidities. Technologic advances
Jean, Bismuth, Cassidy, Duran
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Successful Limb Salvage Reconstruction Using Bulk Femoral Head Allograft
Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2023 Category: Ankle Introduction/Purpose: The use of femoral head allografts in salvage surgeries for lower extremity reconstruction help address surgical problems of large bone deficits. There are very few publications and mixed results in the literature as
Gabriella Mendez MD +3 more
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