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Rotationplasty as a limb salvage procedure for malignant bone tumours

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Summary. Sixteen patients with malignant bone tumours, 15 osteosarcoma and one Ewing’s sarcoma, were treated by rotationplasty at Tata Memorial Hospital between 1989 and 1994. The functional results are better than after amputation.

Résumé. Les auteurs rapportent 16 cas de tumeur osseuse maligne traités par plastie de rotation à l’Hôpital Tata Memorial entre 1989 et 1994. Il s’agit de 15 ostéosarcomes et d’une sarcome d’Ewing. Avec une bonne rééducation prothétique les résultats donnent une meilleure qualité de vie que ceux apportés par une amputation.

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Accepted: 10 July 1997

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Badhwar, R., Agarwal, M. Rotationplasty as a limb salvage procedure for malignant bone tumours. International Orthopaedics SICOT 22, 122–125 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002640050222

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