Temporary External Fixation Can Stabilize Hip Transposition Arthroplasty After Resection of Malignant Periacetabular Bone Tumors.

CONCLUSIONS: Hip transposition with temporary external fixation can stabilize the bone soft tissue after pelvic resection. Although we did not have a comparison group of patients, we believe that external fixation facilitates early postoperative physiotherapy and rehabilitation and provides good functional results without major surgical complications. Because it delays the resumption of chemotherapy, more patients with longer followup are needed to determine whether this will be associated with poorer oncologic results.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, therapeutic study.
PMID: 30985613 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - April 8, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Kunisada T, Fujiwara T, Hasei J, Nakata E, Senda M, Ozaki T Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research