Does intramedullary nailing improve the union rate or decrease mechanical complications for patients with extremity sarcoma after biological reconstruction?

Segmental resection of a tumor in the long bones can be treated with biological reconstruction including allograft or inactivated autograft. Allografts and inactivated autograft have been most successful in intercalary and intraarticular reconstructions, with the advantages over prosthetic reconstruction in that it restores bone stock, avoids the prosthetic complication and provides possibly a lifelong biologic reconstruction. The structural allograft and inactivated autograft are appropriate alternatives in limb reconstruction after massive resection of involved tissues in malignant bone tumors and both can acquire satisfactory outcome in the previous studies [1 –9].

Source: Injury - February 6, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Jun Wang, Yi Yang, Rongli Yang, Xiaodong Tang, Wei Guo Source Type: research