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Biological Reconstruction of the Distal Femur—I: Massive Allograft and Inlaid Free Vascular Fibula

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We describe the case of a 9-years year-old boys affected by an osteosarcoma of the left distal femur without epiphyseal involvement. Distal femur was resected trying to preserve its growth plate and then reconstructed using an autoplastic vascular fibula autograft in association with an allograft shell and a stabilization with plates and screws. Several different procedures were done to compensate limb length discrepancy.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Antonio D’Arienzo, Simone Colangeli, Lorenzo Andreani, Olimpia Mani & Rodolfo Capanna

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  1. Professor Emeritus Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

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    Franklin H. Sim

  3. Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, HBNI, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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D’Arienzo, A., Colangeli, S., Andreani, L., Mani, O., Capanna, R. (2022). Biological Reconstruction of the Distal Femur—I: Massive Allograft and Inlaid Free Vascular Fibula. In: Özger, H., Sim, F.H., Puri, A., Eralp, L. (eds) Orthopedic Surgical Oncology For Bone Tumors . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73327-8_19

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