The aim of this study was to report the results of custom-made endoprostheses with extracortical plates plus or minus a short, intramedullary stem aimed at preserving the physis after resection of bone sarcomas in children. Between 2007 and 2017, 18 children aged less than 16 years old who underwent resection of bone sarcomas, leaving ≤ 5 cm of bone from the physis, and reconstruction with a custom-made endoprosthesis were reviewed. Median follow-up was 67 months (interquartile range 45 to 91). The tumours were located in the femur in 11 patients, proximal humerus in six, and proximal tibia in one.Aims
Patients and Methods
We report a case of spontaneous physeal growth arrest of the distal femur in a nine-year-old child with Ewing’s sarcoma of the proximal femur treated with chemotherapy and endoprosthetic
A series of 400 patients (average age 57.7 years) with bilateral low-friction
An episode of hypotension is common during cemented
1. The technique and results of
Arthrodesis of the knee is a simple and safe operation that ensures stability and freedom from pain. But it is achieved at the expense of movement and occasionally of social acceptability. If
We performed 20 de la Caffiniere trapeziometacarpal arthroplasties for osteoarthritis occurring only at this joint and reviewed all patients after periods of up to ten years. Eighteen
The records of 107 patients with displaced subcaptial hip fractures treated by Thompson's femoral head
1. The results of twenty-eight "hinge"
Forty hips, which had previously been the site of tuberculous or pyogenic arthritis and which had later developed a degenerative arthritis, were treated by low-friction
Ten patients underwent endoprosthetic
When the Oxford unicompartmental meniscal bearing
We investigated whether improvements in design have altered the outcome for patients undergoing endoprosthetic
If conclusions are to be of any value they must be definite and one cannot draw definite conclusions from less than, say, fifty cases followed up for at least five years. However, few surgeons will ever see fifty patients requiring
Thirty patients with chronic pyogenic or tuberculous arthritis of the hip treated by Girdlestone's excision
We prepared a prosthesis for the
Thirty-three Girdlestone's
The aim of this study was to determine if a change
in antibiotic prophylaxis for routine hip and knee replacement was
associated with an increased risk of acute renal impairment. . We identified 238 patients (128 knees and 110 hips) who had received
a single prophylactic dose of 1.5 g cefuroxime before
Arthroplasty registries are important for the
surveillance of